Saturday, January 9, 2016

Roomba through your home WiFi

Roomba through your home WiFi Welcome to a Biomedical Battery specialist of the iRobot Battery
The floor-tracking sensor is on the bottom of the robot, and it works like an optical mouse, tracking any movement of the robot very precisely. That’s really the first thing that’s used to create the most rudimentary of maps as the robot is driving around. Then, we use our other sensors to add detail onto that floor plan, like the bumpers and the IR sensors that are looking for the dock and virtual walls.
In addition to that, we use the new camera. The camera is used to observe patterns throughout the home that we call visual landmarks, and the robot remembers those landmarks and tags on its map where that landmark was observed from. As the robot is driving around with battery scuh as iRobot 4978 Battery, iRobot iTouchless AV001A Battery, iRobot iTouchless AV002A Battery, iRobot Roomba 400 Battery, iRobot Roomba 4000 Battery, iRobot Roomba 4100 Battery, iRobot Roomba 4210 Battery, iRobot Roomba 5210 Battery, iRobot Roomba Dirt Dog Battery, iRobot Roomba Intelligent Robotic M-288 Battery, iRobot Roomba Pro Elite Battery, iRobot Roomba Scheduler Battery, it’s always looking for these types of landmarks, and if it sees anything familiar from a previously recorded landmark, that allows the robot to be able to calculate very precisely where it is as compared to where it was when it saw that original landmark.
The floor tracking sensor is very precise in tracking movement, but over time, it accumulates drift. So the camera sensor is used to kind of snap the robot back to reality. Any time that a landmark is validated, the robot readjusts its whole map to correct any errors that might have been accumulated over time.
Another thing you may notice just by looking at the robot is that the number of buttons on top of the Roomba 980 has been reduced to three: a home button, a sort of target button (which, it turns out, is for spot cleaning), and the big fat CLEAN button.
The Roomba 980 can get away with so few buttons because it comes with an official iRobot app (for Android or iPhone). This is new. Unlike the Roomba 790’s wireless command center, this is an actual app that runs on your phone that will talk to your Roomba through your home WiFi network from wherever you have Internet access, and lets you control all kinds of things.

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