Performance Evaluation Criteria for Autonomous Cleaning Robots

This paper is a report on the initial trial for its kind in the development of the performance index of the autonomous mobile cleaning robot. The unique characteristic features of the cleaning robot have been identified as autonomous mobility, dust collection, and operation noise. Along with the identification of the performance indices the standardized performance-evaluation methods including the corresponding performance evaluation platform for each indices have been developed as well. The validity of the proposed performance evaluation methods has been demonstrated by applying the proposed evaluation methods on two commercial cleaning robots available in market. The proposed performance evaluation methods can be applied to general-purpose autonomous service robots which will be introduced in the consumer market in near future.