Bluebotics Sa

Cleanfix Reinigungssysteme Ag

Pierre Lamon

Grégoire Terrien

Nicola Tomatis

Roland Flück

Yannis Jeannotat

A process of piloting an omnidirectional autonomous vehicle on a virtual pathway, the omnidirectional autonomous vehicle including at least one reference line, and steering wheels configurable to drive the omnidirectional autonomous vehicle on the virtual pathway independently of its orientation.

Omnidirectional line following autonomous vehicle

Disclosed is control of a floor treatment machine and treating floor surfaces, including a planning mode, allowing at least two zones to be defined on a floor surface to be treated, a first node to be defined in each zone and a connection path from at least one zone to a first node of another zone to be defined. At least one region of the zone edge can be input as a virtual obstacle, a direct connection between the first node of the defined zone and the first node of another zone being interrupted by the input region on the basis of real and virtual obstacles. After the complete treatment of a zone, the virtual obstacle on the zone edge is canceled and a switch to another zone is performed. Thus, zones distributed in any way can be treated in succession without the intervention of an operating person.

Floor treatment machine and method for treating floor surfaces

A method for displacing a mobile robot on a virtual path within a workspace, comprising the generation of a synthetic offset, indicative of a lateral displacement between the instantaneous position of the mobile robot and the virtual path. The method may also include the generation of virtual tags and may be used in the retrofit or upgrade of autonomous vehicles of the line-following type.

Virtual line-following and retrofit method for autonomous vehicles

A floor treatment machine is disclosed for treating floor surfaces and includes a housing, two drive wheels, at least one support wheel, a drive device, a controller, at least one scan sensor configured to ensure that distance measurements can be carried out in a substantially horizontal plane via a predetermined angular area, and a floor treatment device configured to ensure that the floor can be treated. In at least one embodiment, the controller encompasses a treatment mode, which guarantees a simple and reliable selection of a successful route by way of few driving and storing steps. The boundary of the floor surface is treated as an obstacle. To record the treated surface, starting and end points of route segments, which have been followed, and one of the states 'completely treated' or 'incompletely treated' for the end points as well as direction information is stored.

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Epalinges, Switzerland

Pierre Lamon