Automatic Home Floor Cleaner Robot

摘要

Due to the presence of semi-automated home floor cleaner systems that are unable to do both mopping and draining of water on floor surfaces, this research investigates the challenges being faced by the elderly and the differently-abled people in using these cleaner systems and develops a robot that can effectively clean floor edges and corners. In attaining an automatic home floor cleaner robot, this research utilizes the vector field histogram (VFH) and path planning algorithms to realize automatic obstacle detection, edge detection, and moderate floor coverage when mopping. The effectiveness of algorithms depends on floor edges, floor corners, and water presence on the floor. The results enjoy the satisfaction of the elderly, the differently abled, and other individuals who are too busy to do the work since they no longer have to intervene in the cleaning process except to just power on the cleaner robot. However, the robot requires continuous charging of the battery, and it does not work on carpeted floors.