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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2018
Vorwerk & Co. Interholding Gmbh, Wuppertal, DE;
David Erkek, Aarau, CH;
Georg Hackert, Bochum, DE;
Gerhard Isenberg, Cologne, DE;
Roman Ortmann, Huerth, DE;
Andreas Schmidt, Mettmann, DE;
Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH, Wuppertal, DE;
Abstract
An unmanned vehicle that moves automatically within an environment, in particular a cleaning robot, with a detection system for detecting object data in an environment of the vehicle and a calculating device for generating an area map based on recorded object data. The area map has information about a position of an external illuminating device designed separately from the vehicle, as well as one or several items of information about the illuminating device, such as light intensity, emission spectrum, position and/or size of a partial area of an environment that can be illuminated by the illuminating device, and type of illuminating device.