Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a household appliance, in particular a household food processor, for preparing food particularly by chopping, blending and/or heating the food in a food preparation container. The household appliance comprises the food preparation container, into which an ingredient for food preparation can be fed by the user. At least one sensor for determining a feeding quantity of an ingredient as the ingredient is being fed into the food preparation container is provided, and a control device of the household appliance is configured such that the feeding quantity is determined based on a sensor signal of the sensor. A food that requires a uniform feed of an ingredient for a predetermined period of time can thus be prepared particularly reliably and reproducibly by a user.

Abstract: A wet cleaning apparatus has a cleaning element for mechanically wet cleaning an area to be cleaned and a device section that supports the wet cleaning apparatus relative to the area. The wet cleaning apparatus comprises a displacement device that is designed for automatically causing a displacement of the cleaning element relative to the device section or vise versa in dependence on a state of motion and/or an error status of the wet cleaning apparatus such that the cleaning element can be displaced from an operating position, in which it is lowered onto the area, into a distant position, in which it is lifted off the area. A detection device is assigned to the displacement device and is designed for distinguishing between a standstill of the wet cleaning apparatus and a motion of the wet cleaning apparatus.

Abstract: A floor processing device has at least one electrical consumer, a battery for supplying power to the electrical consumer, and a control device for controlling the floor processing device. In order to avoid recharging the battery during an operating activity, the control device determines the anticipated energy required by one or more consumers to perform and fully complete a predefined operating activity, compares the anticipated energy required with an amount of energy stored in the battery, and if the stored amount of energy is less than the energy required, reduces the energy required by adjusting one or several operating parameters for the operating activity, in order to successfully execute the operating activity.

Abstract: A method for the operation of a cleaning appliance automatically moving within an environment, wherein the cleaning appliance cleans a surface in accordance with a predetermined work schedule, wherein at least one level of contamination of the surface is determined, and a cleaning task is controlled as a function of the level of contamination. In order to make the cleaning operation more flexible and individual, the level of contamination is entered on a map associated with positional information of the environment, wherein a user undertakes editing of the map, that is to say, defines on the map surface zones of the surface and manually assigns a cleaning task of the cleaning appliance to at least one surface zone.

Abstract: A method for operating a cleaning appliance, which moves automatically inside a surrounding area, wherein the cleaning appliance performs a cleaning of a defined spatially defined partial surface area of the surrounding area. To optimize the cleaning operation as a function of a measured soiling, it is proposed that a detection device of the cleaning appliance measures a level of soiling of the partial surface area during the cleaning of the partial surface area, wherein the level of soiling is compared to a defined reference level of soiling and wherein the partial surface area is enlarged automatically by adding a defined additional partial area, which adjoins the partial surface area, if a level of soiling above the reference level of soiling is determined inside the partial surface area.

Abstract: A method for operating a cleaning device that automatically moves within an environment, wherein the cleaning device cleans a surface according to a prescribed work plan, wherein a detection device of the cleaning device detects contamination levels of several partial surface areas of the surface, wherein a cleaning operation of the cleaning device is varied as a function of the detection result, wherein an overall contamination level is determined for the surface from the contamination levels of several partial surface areas, and the cleaning operation is performed with cleaning parameters identical to the overall contamination level for the entire surface. In order to create an alternative to conventional operating methods, the determined overall contamination level is compared with at least one reference contamination level, specifically with an overall contamination level determined during a chronologically preceding cleaning activity.

Abstract: An accumulator-operated household appliance and a method for the operation thereof, in which the household appliance has at least two electrical systems, wherein a first electrical system is a first coil of an electrical drive motor. Switches of a switching unit can be switched in such a way by means of a controller that every electrical system is either operated by means of an accumulator assigned thereto or that a plurality of electrical systems are operated by a joint accumulator.

Abstract: A method for operating a floor treatment device that travels autonomously within an environment, wherein the floor treatment device performs a treatment of a defined and spatially limited partial surface region of the environment. During the treatment of the partial surface region a detection device of the floor treatment device measures a treatment status of the partial surface region, compares the treatment status is with a defined reference status and continues a treatment of the partial surface region until the defined reference status is reached. In order to improve the result of a floor treatment operation, a user defines the reference status manually and transmits it to the floor treatment device.

Abstract: A working device that can move self-sufficiently over terrain, which carries task-specific tools. The tools are allocated to different working modules. The different working modules can optionally be used by the working device. The working modules can be a watering tool, a cutting tool, a mowing tool, a sweeping tool, a fertilizer distributing tool or a soil treating tool. The plants are processed with the help of a planning aid which has a database. The planning aid is used to transmit task data to the working device.

Abstract: A sensor module is assigned to a vehicle that can be displaced in a terrain or designed for being positioned in the terrain. The sensor module has a sensor system with sensors that acquire sensor data in a contactless fashion. The sensors are designed for detecting the spatial extent of the plant at a location in the terrain. The sensor data makes it possible to determine whether the plant should be pruned. To this end, the sensor data is evaluated by utilizing a knowledge database.

Abstract: A system consisting of a vehicle which is autarchically mobile in the outdoor area on a property and a surveillance module which can be attached to the vehicle, wherein the surveillance module has surveillance sensors for carrying out surveillance of the property. The surveillance module can be replaced with a work module. Plant care activities can be performed with the work module.

Abstract: A household appliance has a controller for the preparation of a meal according to a sequence of prescribed steps. In order to enable an advantageous interaction with the device, the controller is designed and set up to output a control command for controlling an external device depending on a progress of the sequence of steps.

Abstract: A system has at least two self-traveling floor treatment apparatuses, wherein each of the floor treatment apparatuses features a navigation and self-localization device that is designed for generating an environment map based on environment data of the environment of the floor treatment apparatus, which is recorded by means of a detection device. In order to realize an advantageous cooperation between the floor treatment apparatuses, it is proposed that a common memory unit for storing environment maps and a computing unit are assigned to the floor treatment apparatuses, wherein the computing unit is designed for comparing an environment map of a first floor treatment apparatus with an environment map of a second floor treatment apparatus and/or with an environment map stored in the common memory unit and for specifying which of the environment maps is stored in the common memory unit and/or in a local memory of a floor treatment apparatus based on a defined selection criterion.

Abstract: A system has at least two floor treatment apparatuses for treating a surface in an automatically controlled fashion based on defined adjustment parameters of the floor treatment apparatus, wherein each of the floor treatment apparatuses features at least one detection device for detecting at least one detection parameter of the floor treatment apparatus and/or of an environment of the floor treatment apparatus. In order to enhance a system of this type in such a way that the floor treatment apparatuses advantageously cooperate and support one another, the system features a common database that is assigned to the floor treatment apparatuses. Detection parameters of at least two floor treatment apparatuses are stored in the database in association with the adjustment parameters of the respective floor treatment apparatus.

Abstract: A system has at least one household appliance, at least one automatically moving cleaning device, and a control device for controlling an operation of the cleaning device. To attain a fully automatic operation of the system, the control device is set up to control an operation of the cleaning device as a function of an operating status of the household appliance.

Abstract: A system has at least two cleaning devices, wherein at least one of the cleaning devices can be displaced relative to another cleaning device. In order to perform a service on one of the cleaning devices in an especially advantageous manner, the cleaning devices each have a communications link to a shared controller, wherein the controller is set up to transmit a service request to the second cleaning device and/or to a user of the second cleaning device, depending on the service required by a device component of a first cleaning device, and depending on the service availability status of a second cleaning device.

Abstract: A system has at least two floor processing fixtures of one or several automatically moving floor processing devices for the automatically controlled processing of a surface. In order to further develop such a system in particular with the aim of having the floor processing fixtures advantageously interact and support each other, the system has a shared database allocated to the floor processing fixtures, which is stored in an external memory designed separately from the floor processing device, and in which operational activities for the floor processing fixtures are planned according to defined rules, as well as a central computing device allocated to the database, which plans operational activities according to defined rules.

Abstract: An automatically moving floor treatment appliance has a floor treatment element for acting on a surface to be treated, and a control device for controlling the floor treatment element. To increase the area of application of the floor treatment appliance, the control device is embodied to automatically control the floor treatment element as a function of a measuring result from an air parameter sensor in such a way that a floor treatment of the surface to be treated occurs using the floor treatment element and/or to automatically control the floor treatment element as a function of environmental data stored in an external storage device and relating to an air quality.

Abstract: A method for operating a household appliance with an accumulator, wherein a charging start time of a charging operation for charging the accumulator is controlled in dependence on predefined conditions. In order to ensure a required charge capacity of the accumulator without a charge maintaining mode, it is proposed that the charging start time is controlled in dependence on a charging period and a predefined time of use of the household appliance.

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.