Design and Development of Automated Floor Mopping Robot

This abstract summarizes the work done on designing and developing a floor mopping robot (FMR). The basic problem addressed by this project was the need for a convenient and efficient way to clean floors without manual labour. The specific objective was to create a robot that could clean floors autonomously while avoiding obstacles and accurately sensing its surroundings. The scope of the work involved designing a robot that could handle a variety of floor types and sizes, while minimizing water usage and maximizing battery life. Through this paper, we are identifying and analyzing some of the pre-existing model and proposing some modification changes, to take up this challenge. We have focused on features, applications, mechanisms, constraints of the Robot. To accomplish this objective, the robot was designed with a combination of hardware and software components. The hardware consisted of a base platform, a water tank and pump system, sensors for navigation and obstacle avoidance, and a microcontroller to control the robot's movements. Methodologies for motion planning, object recognition, including water consumption minimization were integrated inside the application. CAD model is used to model the robotic cleaner for the home. By using CAD application and model parameters to assess deformation, equivalence (von-misses) stress, and shear stress, a finite element analysis (FEA) was carried out to determine the change of stress at crucial regions of the system. The successful completion of this assigned task has produced project data for the creation of an affordable, easy, secure, and effective house cleaning robot. Through extensive testing and experimentation, the major results showed that the floor mopping robot was able to effectively clean floors of different types and sizes, while accurately avoiding obstacles. Additionally, the water usage and battery life were optimized, resulting in efficient and effective cleaning performance.