IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND AUTONOMOUS TYPE FLOOR CLEANING ROBOT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

• Main Author: OURA JUNICHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 22.03.2018
• Subjects: CINEMATOGRAPHY; COFFEE MILLS; CONTROLLING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; FURNITURE; HOLOGRAPHY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; MAGNETOGRAPHY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; PRINTING; REGULATING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; SPICE MILLS; STAMPS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL; SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manage the cleaning performance of a cleaning robot by using an image forming apparatus.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus 1 comprises: a radio communication part 91 for performing radio communications with an external device; a storage part 92; an image forming part 12; a robot position recording control part 101 for receiving from an autonomous floor cleaning robot 20 the positional information of the autonomous floor cleaning robot 20 through the radio communication part 91 thereby to record said received positional information together with the date and the time in the storage part 92; a cleaning locus generating part 102 reading the positional information of the autonomous floor cleaning robot 20 at the designated date from the storage part 92 thereby to create the cleaning locus of the autonomous floor cleaning robot 20 at the designated date from said positional information read out; and a cleaning performance map generation part 103 for drawing the cleaning locus of the autonomous floor cleaning robot 20 over the image of the sketch diagram of a room thereby to form the image of the cleaning result map so that the image forming part 12 is caused to form the image of the cleaning result map on the recording paper.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】画像形成装置を使用して清掃ロボットの清掃実績を管理する。【解決手段】画像形成装置１は、外部機器と無線通信を行う無線通信部９１と、記憶部９２と、画像形成部１２と、無線通信部９１を通じて自律型床清掃ロボット２０から自律型床清掃ロボット２０の位置情報を受信して当該受信した位置情報を日付及び時刻とともに記憶部９２に記録するロボット位置記録制御部１０１と、指定された日付の自律型床清掃ロボット２０の位置情報を記憶部９２から読み出して当該読み出した位置情報から指定された日付における自律型床清掃ロボット２０の清掃軌跡を生成する清掃軌跡生成部１０２と、部屋の見取り図の画像に自律型床清掃ロボット２０の清掃軌跡を重ねて描いて清掃実績マップの画像を生成し、画像形成部１２に清掃実績マップの画像を記録紙に形成させる清掃実績マップ生成部１０３とを備える。【選択図】図２