Patent ID: 8706297

Claim:
A method of defining an area of confinement for an autonomous robot comprising: a) positioning the autonomous robot at a first location point P 1 , the autonomous robot comprising a location tracking unit, and recording the first location point P 1 within a memory device; b) moving the autonomous robot from the first location point P 1 to a plurality of location points P 2-N and recording each of the plurality of location points P 2-N within the memory device; and c) defining, with a central processing unit, a first closed-geometry comprising the first location point P 1 and the plurality of location points P 2-N as a perimeter of the area of confinement within the memory device; wherein the central processing unit automatically performs step c) upon one of the plurality of location points P 2-N being determined to be substantially coincident With the first location point P 1 ; and wherein the perimeter of the area of confinement is defined in the memory device as map data, and further comprising automatically transmitting the map data to a server upon the first closed-geometry being defined.