Design of Dual Purpose Cleaning Robot

Abstract

Robotics technology has been constantly developing during the past two decades. Over recent years, several researches have been conducted to develop climbing robots to eliminate humans from laborious and dangerous tasks. Cleaning of walls of tall buildings is one of the applications of the climbing robot. The wall cleaning robot proposed in this paper consists of base module and cleaning module. We are using an electric ducted fan (EDF) and support ropes from base module placed on the parapet for adhering the cleaning module to the glass wall. This robot is designed in such a way that the cleaning module alone can also be used to clean the floor in which the EDF acts as a vacuum cleaner along with a vacuum pump to spray the cleaning fluid. Hence both dry and wet cleaning of floor can be done. The floor cleaning system is manually controlled using bluetooth signal from a smart phone, while wall cleaning is carried out automatically using sensors.