Development of a Wiper and Sweeper Robot

A new service robot is designed in this work for floor dust cleaning in home environments. System has three subsystems: electrical, software and mechanical of which microcontroller, sensors and motor are the electrical and mechanical subsystems respectively and the software subsystem is the brain of the robot. The cleaning robot uses a microcontroller to detect obstacles and manipulates its direction as per the inputs. It is programmed to accept inputs to sense obstacles around it and control the robot to avoid any collisions. In case of an obstacle, or a potential collision, the microcontroller controls the wheels of the robot by a motor driver to avoid collision. The Floor cleaner at the bottom of the robot performs the cleaning process.