RoboPainter — A detailed robot design for interior wall painting

Abstract

High demand for painters is required nowadays and foreseen in the near future for both developed and developing countries. To satisfy such demand, this paper presents the detailed computer aided design (CAD) model of a fully functional wall painting robot for interior finishes. The RoboPainter is capable of performing full scale wall-ceil painting in addition to decorative wall drawings. The 8 degrees of freedom (DOF) mobile robot structure consists of a 6DOF spray painting arm mounted on a 2DOF differentially driven mobile base. The design presented endows several achievements in terms of total robot mass and painting rate as compared to existing literature. Detailed dynamic model parameters are presented to allow for further enhancement in terms of robot motion control.