Robot cleaner, remote monitoring system using robot cleaner, and remote monitoring method using robot cleaner

摘要

A robot cleaner (100) has a camera to generate an image of a cleaning area, a controller to prepare a cleaning map based on the image and to drive a robot cleaner, and a communicator to transmit the image and cleaning map to an external device (200) and to receive a control command from the external device. The image and map may be transmitted over a local or wide area network, and the external device may be a computer, television, smart phone, portable phone, or other type of wireless access device.