Design & Implementation of Vertical Surface Climbing Cleaner Robot

Abstract

This paper presents a vertical surface climbing robot for cleaning of dust from high rise building. Usually, people clean their wall of outer surface of building by human. Often it becomes risky and costly also. A portable robot having the ability to climb on vertical surface has been expected for a long time. To protect human’s life we designed a prototype of vertical surface climbing robot for cleaning and other multipurpose operation. Some combination of technology has been shown such as smart wireless control with all direction moving capability. Four Dc motors are used to move the robot and one Dc motor is used to rotate the cleaning brush. There is one Electric Ducted fan (EDF) which helps the robot to stick to the surface against gravitational force. An Arduino uno is used as a controller for different There is a Bluetooth modular which has been used to connect with smart phone and take command from user. Four motor helps it to move in up, down, right and left direction by the according commands given by smart phone. The full robot is power by using DC battery and AC to DC converted adapter combined. To observe the outcome of the project, we analyzed the performance of the robot by climbing in different surfaces with different nature. The climbing and stick to the surface differ because of grip. Griping is an important issue for this robot. Most of the surface except glass its performance satisfied us.