Patents Assigned to ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD
  • Publication number: 20240066697
    Abstract: The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a robot control method, a robot and a storage medium. In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the robot determines a position when the robot is released from being hijacked based on relocalization operation; determines a task execution area according to environmental information around the position when the robot is released from being hijacked; and afterwards executes a task within the task execution area. Thus, the robot may flexibly determine the task execution area according to the environment in which the robot is released from being hijacked, without returning to the position when the robot is hijacked, to continue to execute the task, then acting according to local conditions is realized and the user requirements may be met as much as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bin CEN
  • Patent number: 11877708
    Abstract: A cleaning robot, includes a body provided with a dust box and a water tank, a water outlet for discharging liquid in the water tank and a dust suction port connected with the dust box are provided with on a bottom of the body, and the water outlet is disposed rearward of the dust suction port and adjacent thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lele Zhang
  • Patent number: 11850753
    Abstract: The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a robot control method, a robot and a storage medium. In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the robot determines a position when the robot is released from being hijacked based on relocalization operation; determines a task execution area according to environmental information around the position when the robot is released from being hijacked; and afterwards executes a task within the task execution area. Thus, the robot may flexibly determine the task execution area according to the environment in which the robot is released from being hijacked, without returning to the position when the robot is hijacked, to continue to execute the task, then acting according to local conditions is realized and the user requirements may be met as much as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bin Cen
  • Patent number: 11801759
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an autonomous mobile robot and a walking method thereof. The autonomous mobile robot includes a machine body, a driving wheel assembly and an obstacle crossing assembly. The driving wheel assembly is rotatably arranged on the machine body through a first rotating shaft. The driving wheel assembly includes a driving wheel. When the driving wheel moves from a first position to a second position relative to the machine body, the obstacle crossing assembly applies a force to the driving wheel assembly to make a change amplitude of positive pressure between the driving wheel and a traveling surface less than or equal to a set threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenjie Cheng, Jie Hou
  • Patent number: 11768496
    Abstract: An obstacle avoidance moving method of a self-moving robot includes storing a coordinate of a first obstacle point and a coordinate of a second obstacle point. The coordinate of the first obstacle point and the coordinate of the second obstacle point are formed by detecting an obstacle by the self-moving robot when moving along a first direction. The method further includes performing a serpentine pattern moving according to the coordinate of the first obstacle point and the coordinate of the second obstacle point. The method accurately determines obstacle position and provides a concise moving path, and greatly improves the working efficiency of the self-moving robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jinju Tang
  • Patent number: 11759081
    Abstract: Disclosed are a cleaning system and a control method thereof. The cleaning system includes a self-propelled cleaning robot, a safety guard connector, a detector assembly; where the self-propelled cleaning robot and the safety guard connector are detachably connected with each other, and the detector assembly detect whether the self-propelled cleaning robot and the safety guard connector being connected with each other or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianfeng Hu
  • Publication number: 20230270310
    Abstract: Provided is a cleaning apparatus, including a liquid supply tank, a liquid storage tank, a first cleaning component, a first rib, disposed on the first cleaning component, for being in contact with a member to be cleaned; where the first rib has two opposite walls protruding above a top surface of the first cleaning component, and the two opposite walls extend along a length direction of the first cleaning component; and a liquid supply port, supplying cleaning liquid in the liquid supply tank to the first cleaning component, where the liquid supply port faces down toward a liquid input end of the first cleaning component; and where liquid injected from the liquid input end flows toward the member to be cleaned and cleans the member to be cleaned under a guidance of the two opposite walls, and is collected to the liquid storage tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingyin ZHANG, Yaya PENG, Yong BAN, Chao CHEN, Zhiwei ZONG, Xiangchao YIN, Hua HUANG, Qing MIAO, He GENG
  • Publication number: 20230195130
    Abstract: Disclosed are an information collection method, a device and a storage medium. An autonomous mobile device may collect environmental information by means of a structured light module, and may collect, in a supplementary manner, obstacle information within a blind area range of the structured light module by executing an omission remediation action, such that the autonomous mobile device detects richer and more accurate environmental information during a task execution process, thereby avoiding omitting information of lower obstacles. The obstacles can be avoided and an environmental map can be constructed according to the detected obstacle information, thereby providing a foundation for subsequent working task execution and obstacle avoidance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huihui YIN, Junjie SHAN
  • Patent number: 11653807
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a self-cleaning method of a self-moving cleaning robot and a self-moving cleaning robot. The self-moving cleaning robot has both a basic working mode and a self-cleaning mode. When the self-moving cleaning robot needs to perform self-cleaning, the following steps are performed: step 100: controlling the self-moving cleaning robot to enter the self-cleaning mode; step 200: performing, by the self-moving cleaning robot, at least one self-cleaning action; and step 300: when at least one condition for ending the self-cleaning action is met, exiting the self-cleaning mode, the step 100 includes: adjusting parameters related to the operation of the self-moving cleaning robot while substantially maintaining the basic working mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zeheng Tang, Shoumu Wang
  • Patent number: 11648675
    Abstract: A mother-child robot cooperative work system and a work method thereof include a mother robot and a charging base0, in which the mother robot is provided with a control unit and a work unit. The system also includes child robot, communicatively coupled to the mother robot. The mother robot performs cleaning for a work area under the control of the control unit, and recognizes cleanable area and assisted cleaning area in a cleaning process. After cleaning work in the cleanable area is completed, the control unit in the mother robot controls the child robot to cooperatively complete the cleaning work in the assisted cleaning area. The mother robot is provided with a child robot pose sensing unit. The unit inputs child robot pose information to the control unit; and the control unit controls the child robot to act as indicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jinju Tang
  • Patent number: 11648716
    Abstract: Disclosed is a surface cleaning robot and a process for manufacturing a track thereof. The surface cleaning robot includes a body, where a walking unit is provided at the bottom of the body, the walking unit includes a track and a gear driving the track, the track includes a hard layer in the inner ring engaging with the gear and a soft layer in the outer ring contacting a cleaning surface, and the hard layer and the soft layer are nested and combined as a whole. The present disclosure adopts a composite track that closely nests and combines inner and outer rings of different materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qi Sun
  • Patent number: 11628569
    Abstract: Provided are a self-movement robot, a map invoking method and a combined robot. The self-movement robot includes a robot body and a control center disposed on the body, the robot body comprising a distance sensor, the distance sensor collects two-dimensional map information of a working surface on which the self-movement robot is located, and collects spatial height information above the working surface on which the self-movement robot is located; and while obtaining the two-dimensional map information of the working surface, the control center overlays the spatial height information to the two-dimensional map information and obtains three-dimensional map information of a working region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jinju Tang
  • Patent number: 11618168
    Abstract: Provided are dynamic region division and region passage identification methods and a cleaning robot. The dynamic region division method includes: acquiring environment information collected by a robot when working in a first region; determining whether the robot has completed a work task in the first region, when a presence of a passage entering a second region is determined based on the environment information; and complementing a boundary at the passage to block the passage, when the work task is not completed. According to the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present application, the occurrence probability of repeated sweeping and miss sweeping is reduced, and the cleaning efficiency is high. In addition, the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present application relies on the environment information collected during the work, rather than relying on historical map data, so that the environmental adaptability is high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qingxiang Song, Kaili Xu, Yongkang Zhu, Da Liu, Yibin Zhang, Junjie Shan, Jinju Tang
  • Publication number: 20230056758
    Abstract: The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a robot control method, a robot and a storage medium. In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the robot determines a position when the robot is released from being hijacked based on relocalization operation; determines a task execution area according to environmental information around the position when the robot is released from being hijacked; and afterwards executes a task within the task execution area. Thus, the robot may flexibly determine the task execution area according to the environment in which the robot is released from being hijacked, without returning to the position when the robot is hijacked, to continue to execute the task, then acting according to local conditions is realized and the user requirements may be met as much as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bin CEN
  • Publication number: 20230057965
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a robot and a control method therefor. In the robot control method, a robot may acquire posture data of a user in response to a posture interaction wakeup instruction, determine a target operation region according to the posture data of the user, and in case that the target operation region is different from a region that a current position of the robot belongs to, move to the target operation region so as to perform a set operation task. Further, the robot implements operations while moving based on user postures without the limitation of region division, thereby further improving the robot control flexibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rui PENG, Qingxiang SONG
  • Publication number: 20230015411
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of travel control, a device and a storage medium. In some exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, a self-mobile device collects three-dimensional environment information on a travel path of itself in the travel process, identifies an obstacle area and a type thereof existing on the travel path of the self-mobile device based on the three-dimensional environment information, and the self-mobile device adopts different travel controls in a targeted manner for different types of the area, such that the obstacle avoidance performance of the self-mobile device is improved by adopting the method of the travel control in the present disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yilan LI, Kaixuan XIE
  • Patent number: 11534916
    Abstract: The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a robot control method, a robot and a storage medium. In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the robot determines a position when the robot is released from being hijacked based on relocalization operation; determines a task execution area according to environmental information around the position when the robot is released from being hijacked; and afterwards executes a task within the task execution area. Thus, the robot may flexibly determine the task execution area according to the environment in which the robot is released from being hijacked, without returning to the position when the robot is hijacked, to continue to execute the task, then acting according to local conditions is realized and the user requirements may be met as much as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bin Cen
  • Publication number: 20220369887
    Abstract: Provided is an autonomous mobile robot, includes a cover, a base and a pressure sensor assembly; the cover includes a top plate and a side plate that are integrally arranged, a connecting portion is formed between the top plate and the side plate, and the connecting portion is at least partially higher than the top plate; the base is arranged below the top plate; and the pressure sensor assembly is arranged in a manner of facing the side plate. The impact of the traditional autonomous mobile robot using a floating bump plate on the positioning accuracy of an optical component may be avoided and the reliability of the autonomous mobile robot during the movement is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keting YANG, Ya LIU, Qingtao CHEN, Zeheng TANG
  • Publication number: 20220369890
    Abstract: Provided are a structured light module and an autonomous mobile device. A structured light module comprises a camera module and line laser emitters distributed on two sides of the camera module; the line laser emitters emit line laser outwards; and the camera module collects an environmental image detected by the line laser. By virtue of the advantage of high detection accuracy of the line laser, front environmental information may be detected more accurately. In addition, the line laser emitters are located on two sides of the camera module. This mode occupies a small size, may save more space, and is beneficial to expand an application scenario of a line laser sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xianyong WU, Wei CHEN, Xiao LUO
  • Patent number: D1021306
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinpu Li, Fang He, Wenli Liao, Fan Zhang