Vorwerk & Co Interholding Gmbh

Maike Brede

Gerhard Isenberg

Lorenz Hillen

Harald Windorfer

Hans-Peter Arnold

Pia Hahn

Michael Blum

Andres Sauerwald

Jutta Schomacher

Jochen Jentsch

Daniel Zuber

Klaus-Martin Weber

Sabine Schweppe

Dirk Schmidt

Raphael Liß

Mikel Blum

Iris Zabback

Helmut SCHÖNHOFF

A method for the operation of a cleaning appliance automatically moving within an environment, wherein the cleaning appliance cleans a surface in accordance with a predetermined work schedule, wherein at least one level of contamination of the surface is determined, and a cleaning task is controlled as a function of the level of contamination. In order to make the cleaning operation more flexible and individual, the level of contamination is entered on a map associated with positional information of the environment, wherein a user undertakes editing of the map, that is to say, defines on the map surface zones of the surface and manually assigns a cleaning task of the cleaning appliance to at least one surface zone.

Method for the operation of an automatically moving cleaning appliance

A method for operating a cleaning device that automatically moves within an environment, wherein the cleaning device cleans a surface according to a prescribed work plan, wherein a detection device of the cleaning device detects contamination levels of several partial surface areas of the surface, wherein a cleaning operation of the cleaning device is varied as a function of the detection result, wherein an overall contamination level is determined for the surface from the contamination levels of several partial surface areas, and the cleaning operation is performed with cleaning parameters identical to the overall contamination level for the entire surface. In order to create an alternative to conventional operating methods, the determined overall contamination level is compared with at least one reference contamination level, specifically with an overall contamination level determined during a chronologically preceding cleaning activity.

Method for operating an automatically moving cleaning device

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