The invention discloses a robot cleaner, a control method applied to the same and a terminal. The method includes: detecting a position of the robot cleaner; when the position is an obstacle position, acquiring type identification of a corresponding obstacle type of the obstacle position; executing preset operations corresponding to the type identification. The robot cleaner, the control method applied to the robot cleaner and the terminal have the advantages that under the condition that a hardware architecture of the robot cleaner is not modified, obstacle types of the robot cleaner in a working environment can be determined according to received obstacle indication information sent by the terminal, so that the robot cleaner keeps away from obstacles automatically during operation, and convenience in application of the robot cleaner is improved while operations of a user are reduced during application of the robot cleaner.