Designing and Optimization of An Autonomous Vacuum Floor Cleaning Robot

Abstract

With the advent of Automation, Robots are seeing widespread use in Industrial manufacturing, Automated retail, Surveillance and Security. In the same breath, home automation has also evoked interest among different user groups. Currently, high-priced floor cleaning robots produced industrially are beyond the purchasing capability of normal households in third world countries. In this paper, we have introduced an initiative to build a cost-effective floor cleaner robot. Using a vacuum cleaning system, we designed and implemented a cleaning robot. The paper has described how an operational floor cleaning robot prototype has been developed along with the techniques of the indoor mapping and positioning system. Raspberry Pi and Arduino Mega were used in unison as the processor of the robot. This robot can map and clean a certain area of a building floor autonomously. One novel contribution of this work is the introduction of a GPS module to the Raspberry Pi so that the robot can be aware of its location and move in the right direction. Human assistance is only required for waste disposal and maintenance. Our future goal is to add a reliable autonomous waste disposal feature in the prototype.