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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2013
Applicant:
Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 9/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1676 (2013.01); B25J 9/0003 (2013.01); B25J 9/1697 (2013.01); G05D 1/0248 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0203 (2013.01);
Abstract
A robot cleaner is provided. The robot cleaner may precisely detect a peripheral obstacle using a particular optical pattern. An asymmetric cross-shaped optical pattern may be irradiated, and a pattern image with respect to the optical pattern-irradiated region may be analyzed to determine whether or not an obstacle is in the moving path, and a width or a height of the obstacle. Further, the robot cleaner may perform operations such as a forward motion, a backward motion, a stopping motion and a detour motion, based the obstacle detection result.