Vacuums iClebo Arte - self-cleaning robot
A Life / / December 19, 2019
Robotic cleaners are no longer perceived as a miracle of technology, especially as most of these "smart" machines may be lost in the room and pointless circling in one place. I want to tell you about a vacuum cleaner iClebo Arte, which not only will not be lost in the apartment, but also their own return to the charging station.
It can clean the carpets and wash the floors, for more than two hours of work without recharging and climb on the thresholds of up to 20 mm. And most importantly - iClebo Arte can be cleaned in the apartments with a complex layout, move from room to room, cleaning around the furniture and do not fall from the stairs. In general, it is an independent robot that is not afraid to leave one.
Probably in his childhood, when his parents were forced to wash the floor, everyone dreams of a robot that would do it for you. Such robots have appeared, and their choice today is big enough - from the unpretentious Philips Easy Star award to iRobot with acoustic and optical sensors determine the level of contamination.
Of course, the range of prices too high: you can buy a simple model and 8000 rubles, and you can spend 30 000 rubles on superumnuyu technique. Probably cleaner iClebo Arte may be called middle segment with a slope in the premium. At least you know what you pay for.
Robot and accessories
I'll start from the beginning. Robot iClebo Arte weighs 2.8 kg, for sale with all accessories.
Here is a set of components of the robot:
Himself a robot cleaner, charging station, remote control with batteries, Quick Start Guide and expanded version, CD with manual, two side brushes - right and left, and the adapter unit supply, two antibacterial filter (third already in the vacuum cleaner), a base and two mop cloth on a mop, the primary brush for cleaning magnetic tape and double-sided restrictive Scotch.
Ready to work
The first thing that you liked the robot iClebo Arte, is a Russian language everywhere. On the basis of the robot, in the instructions on the lid of the charging station. Look further. On the reverse side of the robot can see three of the vehicle - two lateral small wheel and the front wheel.
Actually, these wheels moving robot and can creep to porozhki to 20 mm. The lower edges of the robot more rounded, which helps to better move around without touching the interior sills.
To prepare the robot for cleaning, it is necessary to insert two side brushes, which until then are in the package. On schotkah have designations - R (right) and L (left), so do not confuse where to insert. They are inserted very simply, without the use of any bolts or screws, as in most other robots. In practice, this means that the axis of the side brushes to clean the wound from the hair will have no difficulty.
Below the side wheels, there is a whirling turboschotka. During operation, the side brushes rake up dust and debris toward the center, where he was using turboschotki enters the dust collector.
If you have to wet cleaning, you need to attach to the robot mop and cloth. Mop - it's such a nozzle, which is simply plugged into the sockets, and on it fixed blue microfiber cloth. Before fixing it should be wet, but not overdo it, so that the water did not flow down.
Thus, the vacuum cleaner is ready for harvest. It's time to figure out how to turn it on.
The charging station, adapter and robot connection
So, We reach the charging station, open the back cover and connect the power supply to 12 V, which is perfectly placed inside.
To it is connected cord adapter to which the housing station has a special opening, the lid tightly closed.
After switching on the lamp socket in the charging station lights up red.
Trays robot to the charging station, and the light flashes green until it is fully charged. Then the light will stay on steady.
To turn on the vacuum cleaner, use the ON / OFF switch on the side of the vacuum cleaner. On the remote press POWER. First of all it is necessary to establish the exact time to iClebo Arte could start cleaning at certain times (the harvest itself is installed later in the timer).
After the switch-off time can not be reset, so you do not have to install it again and again after every shutdown.
All the robot is ready to harvest, and so he started it, you must specify a certain program.
Program the robot cleaner iClebo Arte
The robot has five cleaning modes that can be set using the remote control and change at any time.
The first - an automatic mode on the remote control AUTO button. In this mode, the robot cleaned once at the set time. During the cleaning robot uses the camera and the navigation Vision MCU unit.
The camera reads the space above the vacuum cleaner at a rate of 24 frames per second and determines the location and layout. That it is located above the vacuum cleaner: the ceiling, staircase or a partition wall joints, other objects such as a table, under which also need to remove the dust.
With a camera and IR sensors iClebo Arte avoids obstacles without bumping into them. When the sensors on the bumper determine the obstacle, the robot begins to clean up around them. For example, I got this: the robot came across a blanket thrown on the floor.
In principle, iClebo Arte without problems will call on carpets and rugs, that is tough obstacles on the floor. Blanket was too thin, crinkled and he did not give the robot to drop. So, if you have such obstacles on the floor, it is better to remove them.
In any case, the robot wiped the floor near the blanket and crawled to get out more.
If the path is not found iClebo Arte obstacles, the robot retracts snake crawling at a speed of 250 mm / s and without leaving uncleaned places. On average, the robot retracts at a rate of 1 sq. m / min.
This mode (and the next, RANDOM), you can set a certain time. For example, you set the timer 18:00 and the robot starts to get out at this time. When will remove everything (it takes about 120–130 minutes, but if the room is small, the robot will remove much faster), returns to the charging station.
Of course, it would be more convenient if you could run the robot on the day of the week, for example, set the cleaning program on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but this function is not provided iClebo Arte.
Next Mode - RANDOM, in which the robot moves as he pleases. He chaotically crawling on the floor, using its sensors to not fall down and do not bump into things, and then returns to the charging station.
There is another mode that combines the two previous ones - is MAX. First, the robot will clean the room, moving snake, both in automatic mode, and then he switched to the RANDOM, removing what could not be put into the AUTO mode.
If you wake up something useful SPOT mode. As the name implies, the robot removes the "spot" of the floor on which there is any contamination, such as spilled rice flour or something else. iClebo Arte creeps on the area of 1 m diameter and cleans everything that is there.
Well, the last - mode of overcoming obstacles CLIMB. If you run this mode, the robot can climb on the sills of 20 mm.
Well, if you want to "play" with the robot or the need to control the cleaning, you can control it yourself by pressing "up" /«Down "and" Left "/«Right "on the remote.
Incidentally, unlike conventional vacuum cleaners, iClebo Arte not very loud noise (noise level - 55 dB) so that If you have a cat, she not only did not run away in a panic and not clogged in the corner, but can even play with them.
Mine, for example, first sizzled occasionally (when the vacuum cleaner pursued her, accompanied by my giggles), and then watched quite normal for him and even tried to take revenge for the fright.
Difficulties and dangers
To protect the robot from the dangers (which does not detect the camera and sensors), if any, in your home, you can use the tape. Just pasted it on a section of the floor, beyond which lies the danger zone, the robot does not come close to it.
I Robot never bumped into the table legs, the wall there, Tama and other obstacles, time folded and crisp crawling snakes. However, when he came across the wire chargers, it proved an insurmountable obstacle.
He's just stuck in them and no further crawled. We had to evacuate the poor. So remove the wires from the floor before you start cleaning, and then come home and find discharged iClebo Arte, drooping wires.
With regard to the thresholds, the house did not find these little obstacles, so I checked CLIMB mode notebook. Robot without problems it climbed and crawled on, so if you have barriers around 2 cm in height, can not worry - he will take.
By the way, I forgot to tell you more about one button on the remote - BASE. By pressing it, you return the robot to the base. Since iClebo Arte creates a map of your home, it is returned back without bumping into obstacles.
In principle, because it is removed for about two hours, and the charge is enough for 160 minutes, it will be somewhere 30–40 minutes trying to find his base before the battery is completely discharged.
Here, too, there is one "school": a robot poked in the charging station and can move it a little bit. Despite the fact that the base has rubber feet, yet on some of its surfaces contact with the floor may not be sufficient.
Clean the dust collector and filter change
After cleaning it is necessary to shake the dust from the dust collector. We reach the container, take it apart, as shown in the instructions, and shake the dust ball.
By the way, shortly before the test the vacuum cleaner, I was cleaning the apartment. Despite this, iClebo Arte collected solid piece of dust.
So, to understand the container, shake the dust and debris. We reach antibacterial filter from the lattice yellow, wash or clean it with a special brushes.
Incidentally, this brush is cleverly hidden away, and to find it, it is necessary to open the top cover on the charging station. But the big wing of this brush is not - it is easier to clean turboschotku hands. It can be wound on the hair and pet dander, and manual cleaning takes less than a minute.
You can clean the rotating brush and vacuum cleaner from any hairs and dust. Overturn a vacuum cleaner, remove the locking cover and brush We reach.
In principle, all the steps of cleaning brushes are described in detail in the instructions and on schotkah themselves, lids and latches have directional arrows.
I think, first cleaning the vacuum cleaner will take more time than many later. When will understand that where is inserted, where lies and how to clean, clean iClebo robot will be much easier.
In general, about iClebo Arte
To make a concrete opinion about the robot, must immediately indicate positive and negative qualities.
Of the negative:
- the possibility of getting stuck in the wires;
- there is no way to set a timer on weekdays, only run the robot every day at a certain time;
- in automatic cleaning mode, you can wet the microfiber cloth in the process of cleaning, otherwise the robot "decides" that the cleaning cycle has ended and begin to clean up again, driving through the already retracted places;
- if the distance between the bed and the floor approximately corresponding to the height of the robot (89 mm), the robot may be stuck, and would then need to re-run it;
- IR has a small radius of action.
On the positive side:
- overcoming obstacles 20 mm;
- the opportunity to remove a large apartment and not get lost in the complicated layout;
- work without additional charge over two hours;
- an opportunity to wipe the floor, not just vacuumed them;
- quiet operation (especially important if you have small children or evil neighbors);
- two side brushes help to better collect garbage along the walls and in the corners;
- removes fine wool and hair, some of which remains in turboschotke;
- Li-Ion battery will last for more than 1000 charging cycles;
- excellent quality of Korean assembly, durable materials (in the process of the robot is not broke personal collection-analysis).
The cost of the vacuum cleaner is decent, but considering all of its features, it seems, it's worth it. If you think about how cool it would be to come every day to clean the apartment with freshly scrubbed floors and cleaned carpets in the soul spreads pleasant warmth.
Of course, the robot does not make spring cleaning, but daily maintenance of cleanliness in the apartment, as well as help small local problems (something woke up on the floor or on the carpet), he manages well.
The robot cleaner iClebo Arte was given to test the official representative of Yujin Robot in Russia - company "Robotics".