System with at least two floor processing fixtures

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10562177-B2
Application number	US-201816008161-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 14, 2018
Priority date	Jun 16, 2017
Publication date	Feb 18, 2020
Grant date	Feb 18, 2020

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.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
at least two floor processing fixtures of at least one automatically moving floor processing device for the automatically controlled processing of a surface,
a shared database allocated to the floor processing fixtures, the database being stored in an external memory designed separately from the at least one floor processing device, and in which operational activities for the floor processing fixtures are planned according to defined rules, and
a central computing device allocated to the database, the central computing device being configured for planning operational activities according to the defined rules,
wherein the database contains if-then links between defined events and resultantly initiated operational activities of the floor processing fixtures, wherein an operational activity of a floor processing fixture can only be initiated if a defined event arises at a specific time and wherein within the shared database at least two operational activities comprise a sequence of activities, in which a subsequent operational activity depends on an earlier operational activity.

2. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the floor processing fixtures are formed on the same floor processing device or on two different floor processing devices.

3. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the central computing device is configured to plan operational activities of the floor processing fixtures based on time and/or event.

4. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the central computing device is configured to plan two or more operational activities of one or several floor processing fixtures, with one of the operational activities being based on the other of the operational activities.

5. The system according to claim 1 , wherein a subsequent activity is stored for an operational activity stored in the database, wherein the subsequent activity is defined based on a failure of the performed operational activity.

6. The system according to claim 5 , wherein the subsequent activity is selected from the group consisting of a repeated operational activity, an operational activity of another floor processing fixture, a fault analysis and a user notification.

7. A method for operating a system with at least two floor processing fixtures of one or several automatically moving floor processing devices, comprising the following steps:
processing a surface by the floor processing fixtures in an automatically controlled manner,
planning operational activities for the floor processing fixtures according to defined rules by a central computing device of the system, and
storing the planned operational activities in a shared database that is allocated to the floor processing fixtures, wherein the database is stored in an external memory designed separately from the floor processing device,
wherein the database contains if-then links between defined events and resultantly initiated operational activities of the floor processing fixtures, wherein an operational activity of a floor processing fixture can only be initiated if a defined event arises at a specific time and wherein within the shared database at least two operational activities comprise a sequence of activities in which a subsequent operational activity depends on an earlier operational activity.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the operational activities of the floor processing fixtures are planned based on time and/or event and/or wherein two or more operational activities of one or several floor processing fixtures are planned one based on the other.

9. The method according to claim 7 , wherein a defined subsequent activity is performed depending on a failure of a performed operational activity, and wherein the defined subsequent activity is selected from the group consisting of a repeated operational activity, an operational activity of another floor processing fixture, a fault analysis and a user notification.

Assignees

• Vorwerk Co Interholding

Inventors

• Hackert Georg
• Helmich Martin
• Hillen Lorenz
• Holz Christian
• Isenberg Gerhard
• Koetz Hendrik
• Mosebach Andrej
• Ortmann Roman
• Dulinski Robin

Classifications

• A47L11/24 Primary

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• A47L11/4088

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• H04L12/2816

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• A47L11/4083

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• A01D34/008

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