An Automated Floor Cleaner Robot for Domestic and Industrial Applications

Smart home technologies have significantly enhanced comfort and convenience in our daily lives by facilitating several domestic tasks. Household robots utilized in smart homes are designed to maintain clean floor spaces. The manually operated floor cleaning machines are exceedingly labor-intensive and time-consuming. Furthermore, fuel-operated machinery is prohibitively expensive as well as detrimental to the environment. This paper presents the design and development of an automated floor cleaning robot that eliminates previous limitations, thereby conserving both time and financial resources by reducing human labor costs. Recently, several household robots, particularly floor-cleaning robots, have been developed. Nonetheless, only a limited number of advanced robots were dedicated to the wet cleaning of floors. This study presents an efficient automated vacuum cleaning robot that can perform both vacuuming and wet cleaning of floor surfaces while navigating the area. This eliminates the labor and necessity of designating separate time for cleaning the premises. The automated robot was initially designed, followed by the construction of an effective chassis. Subsequently, IR sensors, an Arduino Nano, motor drivers, and a motor shield were incorporated into the system. The economical and user-friendly robot is designed for autonomous cleaning of various surfaces in both household and industrial settings.