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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2021
Irobot Corporation, Bedford, MA (US);
Travis James Gschrey, Billerica, MA (US);
Eric Burbank, Lexington, MA (US);
Oliver Lewis, Waltham, MA (US);
Milan Modh, Waltham, MA (US);
Sophia Wennstedt, Bedford, MA (US);
iRobot Corporation, Bedford, MA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides, in one aspect, method of controlling an autonomous cleaning robot, the method comprising: navigating the autonomous cleaning robot to a docking station; sensing that the autonomous cleaning robot is navigating to the docking station; increasing a vacuum power of a vacuum assembly of the autonomous cleaning robot to reduce an amount of debris from an airflow channel proximate to an inlet of a cleaning bin disposed in the autonomous cleaning robot; and then decreasing the vacuum power of the vacuum assembly of the autonomous cleaning robot.