Design and implementation of a remote monitoring cleaning robot

Abstract

This paper is focused on the construction of a cleaning robot which provides wireless remote monitoring services. Through modifying a commercial cleaning robot, various environment sensors, vision and networking capability are added to the system. It has many advantages over the traditional cleaning robot. This whole system consists of an IP camera, a computer, and a control board that drives motors on the cleaning robot. Besides, there are many sensors equipped on the robot, so it can measure surroundings and upload the data to the Appserv web server through Wi-Fi. The user can access the data in the server by using web browser. Moreover the user can also control the robot remotely with mobile app.