CLEANING ROBOT HOME MONITORING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE CLEANING ROBOT

摘要

A cleaning robot is provided. The cleaning robot includes a main body a moving assembly to move the main body around a home an imaging unit to obtain images around the main body a controller to generate a map of the home using the obtained images and a communication unit to transmit the generated map to a home monitoring apparatus. A procedure to match location and type information of electric devices to a two Dimensional (2D) or three Dimensional (3D) map of the home may be automated. As described above the map of the home may be realistically generated by utilizing a map generated by the cleaning robot and inconvenience experienced by a user to manually register electric devices located in each room of the home may be solved by automatically registering the electric devices.