Practical Requirements for a Domestic Vacuum-Cleaning Robot

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Frank Jenkins

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Consideration of the environmental, commercial and legal constraints on a practical home vacuumcleaning robot suggests that the best configuration is a compact single-purpose vehicle designed to map and follow a deliberate path. This configuration, suitably equipped with the necessary external and internal sensors, serves to define the AI requirements for mapping, path following, contingency handling and user interface.

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