Is it possible to automatically clean office buildings in Rumba? Mitsubishi Estate released a demonstration experiment demonstration of automatic driving cleansing robots (3)

From April 2018, Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd. has announced that it will consider various robots and AI in the Marunouchi area in Tokyo.As part of this, the test of the three cleaning robots was released to the press, aiming to eliminate labor shortages and reform work style.One is "RS26 Powered by Brainos" by SoftBankrobotics, a large scrubber that runs a wide area efficiently.We demonstrated automatic cleaning underground passages near the round building.

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The second is a smaller Japanese signal automatic cleaning robot "Kinabo".It is a scrubber that tests in the Shinmaru Building waiting space and is suitable for small and medium -sized cleaning.

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Scrubber is a cleaning device suitable for floors such as tiles and stone, but many businesses, including general companies, are concerned about the automatic driving robot that cleans the garbage falling in the corridor such as carpets.right.Mitsubishi Estate was unique to the demonstration test to see if this could be handled by Irobot's "Rumba".

Mitsubishi Estate focused on Rumba's home vacuum cleaner, although it is a home vacuum cleaner, has excellent suction power (performance in sucking garbage) and self -propelled ability.The company wants to reduce the cleaning staff by using this for cleaning the floor at midnight and automating the garbage removal on the floor where the employees returned home.Therefore, Mitsubishi Estate actually introduced Rumba on the office floor of the Shinmaru Building and conducted a two -week demonstration experiment.For details on the experiment, start cleaning two rumba during the midnight hours when there are no people on the floor, Rumba automatically runs from the charging station, clean the floor by autonomous driving, and reduce the remaining battery.It automatically returns to the station and automatically returns to cleaning again when charging is completed.As a result, various things have been understood.

充電ステーションで待機しているアイロボットジャパンの「ルンバ980」。パトライト(パトロールランプ)を設置しているため、人が勤務している時間帯でもルンバによる清掃作業ができるかどうかも検証する見込み。なお、充電ステーションはいつもは給湯室に設置しているが、デモのために廊下に設置されていた

On the floor that conducts the demonstration experiment, the two Rumba worked on half the floor, about 137 square meters per car, 3 hours and 31 minutes of actual work, and completed the work by the morning and returned to the charging station.It is said that it is (cleaning is about 2 hours, charging time is about 1).5 hours).

1台のルンバが清掃した部分のマップと距離(清掃した範囲の目安)、清掃時間などがログとしてアプリに記録される

Rumba departs the charging station installed in the hot water supply room by autonomous driving, returns to the station when the charging is gone, charging for 90 minutes, and when it comes to full charge, it goes out to the floor again and continues to clean it automatically.He says he has been cleaning the entire floor with about three and a half hours, and returns to the station again in the morning.By installing an infrared device, the range of Rumba acts can be limited.For example, place a infrared device in a place where Rumba does not want to enter, such as a toilet or stairs.In addition, the two Rumba cleaning the floor in half, but also has an infrared device on the border.

写真ではルンバの上の位置、壁に設置されている白い装置が赤外線装置。ルンバはこれ以上、先(上)には自律走行しない。この赤外線装置を置くことで、ルンバが侵入して欲しくない場所やルンバの清掃範囲を指定することができる

In the morning, when you come to work, you can see if you have cleaned up the Rumba logs.During the demonstration experiment period, we visually confirmed whether there was a leak or if there was no garbage.

2台のルンバが深夜のフロアを半分ずつ清掃した記録がそれぞれのアプリに残っている。(2台のスマートフォンのアプリに表示されたマップを合わせた面積がフロア全体のものだ。各ルンバは毎回やり残しなく、作業を完遂すると言う)

The app was made by the standard one provided by the i robot for Rumba, and the demonstration specified the settings that only turned back and forth (although you can specify a place that does not enter with infrared rays, you can not specify the route.).Rumba detects the wall and sucks the trash while making a U -turn.When the battery level is low, it automatically returns to the charging station and resumes cleaning when charging is completed.■ Automatic cleaning demonstration of office buildings by Rumba

Rumba says that he could not be able to do an accurate self -propelled without a light, so he could not achieve the expected results in the midnight corridor. Therefore, if only a part of the lighting that was lit during the day was executed, it became possible to clean by self -propelled. The person in charge of Mitsubishi Estate said, "The cleaning range of rumba can be specified using an infrared device, but it is not possible to specify the route. Therefore, if you look at the cleaning work, you will clean the same place many times. Sometimes I felt that it was not efficient, but looking at the cleaning work result until the morning, there was no "lefto", and it was ultimately cleaning the expected range. If Rumba determines that dirt or garbage is terrible, cleaning work will be performed repeatedly as "intensive cleaning". It will also remain as a notification, so people can carefully confirm that part in the morning. 。 The demonstration experiment has produced satisfactory results, so it is at the stage of considering full -scale introduction. "

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