DigiMop – A Home Automation Tool

DigiMop – A Home Automation Tool

Sagar Gupta, Vikram Kamath, and Suhas More, Dhanashri Kanade
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, K.C College of Engineering, India

 

Abstract: The research aims to create a automated home cleaner thus helping people reduce their labour intense work such as sweeping and mopping floor The objective of this project is to design and implement a vacuum robot prototype by using Arduino , LDR sensor, motor shield L293D, infraredsensor and create a user friendly home cleaning device.

Keywords: Arduino; IOT; home automation; sensor; cleaner

I.INTRODUCTION

Even though there is considerable work done in this application of robotics, none of it concerns with the cleaning of both dry and wet floors by respective detection. The conventional vacuum cleaner consists of large mechanical and electrical parts which are more costly and consume more power whereas the autonomous cleaner robots consists of low power consumer electronics and mechanical parts and it can operate during power outage period and does not need any human guidance.
Robotic cleaners are basically distinguished on their cleaning expertise like floor mapping, dry vacuum cleaning etc. The motto of this project is to evaluate cost efficient, light weight, less noisy and low maintenance robotic system.

Simultaneously having the facility of automatic avoidance of any obstacles and capable of finding its way around. way. Robot can clean along edges and into other hard-to-reach places. They are guided by certain algorithms for path planning and navigation, accordingly robot cleans the surface. Sensors present in it are used for obstacle detection. The robot’s bumper prevents it from bumping into walls and furniture by reversing or changing path accordingly.

II. RELATED WORK

Bluetooth Based Automated Floor Cleaner by C R Balamurugan, P.Kerubha, S.Arunkhanna with disadvantages Scrubber design is inefficient, development can be made in field of sensors.

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