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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2017
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Dong Hun Lee, Ansan-si, KR;
Heum yong Park, Suwon-si, KR;
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A cleaning robot including a main body, a moving assembly to move the main body, a cleaning tool provided at a bottom part of the main body to collect foreign substances on a floor, and an imager to collect images around the main body. The cleaning robot also including a controller to recognize motion of a hand by performing image processing of the collected images, identify a control command corresponding to the motion of the hand, plan a moving direction and a moving distance of the main body as movement information based on the control command, and control operations of the moving assembly and the cleaning tool based on the planned movement information. Since the user directly controls movement of the cleaning robot, it is possible to improve interactivity between human and cleaning robot, to reduce the effort by the user and increase convenience.