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International Journal of Advanced Research Trends in Engineering and Technology (IJARTET) Vol. 3, Issue 4, April 2016
Autonomous Cleaning Robot for Highway Maintenance Mr. P.Gowtham#1, M.Kameshprabu#2, S.Karthick#3, A.Jayanthi#4 Assistant Professor, ECE, Jansons Institute of Technology, Coimbatore-641 659. 2 UG Student, B.E (E.C.E), Jansons Institute of Technology, Coimbatore – 641659. 3 UG Student, B.E (E.C.E), Jansons Institute of Technology, Coimbatore – 641659. 4 UG Student, B.E (E.C.E), Jansons Institute of Technology, Coimbatore – 641659. 1
Abstract: - In this present era, highway roads are the ones that are most used mode of transportation. And cleaning a highway is not only time consuming, but also its very tiring. Especially for cleaning workers it becomes difficult to handle the highway lane work as it needs constantly the process getting repeated. More numbers of daily workers are involved to clean the highway road and it’s not safe for them. For saving time we needed an automatic system that cleans on its own without human interventions. Also, we did think about how to aid people with physical disabilities. Since we had to do this, we were aware that we needed a cleaning system that could work in accordance to what we say, thus helping a physically disabled person. Keyword: Ultrasonic Sensor, Pick and Place module, GSM Module, Driver unit, Microcontroller (AT328p), Suction pump and Driver unit. of the robot a motor driver to avoid collision. The vacuum I. INTRODUCTION cleaner mounted on the robot performs the cleaning process. Robot is an electromechanical machine and used II. PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION for various purposes in industrial and domestic applications. Robot appliances are entering in the consumer market, since In this present era, people live a very busy life. the introduction of Robots. Many related appliances from People in cities have irregular and long working times. In various companies have been followed. Initially the main such a Situation a person will always find ways of saving focus was on having a cleaning device. As the time pass on time. Highways roads are the ones that are most dread upon. many improvements were made and more efficient And cleaning a highway lane tops the list. It is not only time appliances were developed. In this research work a highway consuming, but also its very tiring. Especially for working cleaner robot working based on Street sweepers using PIC man and women it becomes difficult to handle both .microcontroller. This cleaner robot is an electric Street organisation and highway lane work together. sweeper’s appliance, which works in two modes as per the user convenience “Automatic and manual”. Unlike other floor cleaner robots this is not a vacuum cleaner robot; it performs sweeping operation and collect weed in highway. It works on +24V supply. Using battery and solar panel. In the automatic mode, robot performs all operations itself. Firstly robot starts it moves forward and perform cleaning action. For obstacle detection and to avoid hurdle IR sensors have been used. If any hurdle detected then robot change the lane automatically. The heart of the system is a microcontroller. It is programmed to accept inputs to sense obstacles around it and control the robot to avoid any collisions. There are 4 IR sensors used in this project-one at the front, and the remaining on the left, right and back of the robot to detect obstacles, if any. In case of an obstacle, or by Figure 1: Floor Cleaning Robot Model a potential collision, the microcontroller controls the wheels
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