Design of stetro: a modular, reconfigurable, and autonomous staircase cleaning robot

• Main Authors: Muhammad Ilyas, Yuyao, Shi, Mohan, Rajesh Elara, Devarassu, Manojkumar, Kalimuthu, Manivannan
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Reconfigurable; Cleaning Robot; DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106328; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47429
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The mechanical, electrical, and autonomy aspects of designing a novel, modular, and reconfigurable cleaning robot, dubbed as sTetro (stair Tetro), are presented. The developed robotic platform uses a vertical conveyor mechanism to reconfigure itself and is capable of navigating over flat surfaces as...