Design of an intelligent cleaning machine for elderly assistance

• Main Author: Lee, Xun
• Other Authors: Hu Guoqiang
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Control and instrumentation::Robotics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/75460
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this fast pacing society, most of the household items have changed into a Smart device to lessen the workload of housekeeping. For example, the usage of Smart cleaning devices such as Smart Robotic Vacuum Cleaner have been significantly increasing in this fast- growing age of technology. Other than the cleaning devices, Smart Phones Apps which are designed to control the devices have also massively developing over the years. Furthermore, close to every single person have a smart phone which can be used as a controller for such Smart Cleaning devices to ease the burden to have to control any device physically. This final year project is to develop and create a robotic vacuum cleaner which can be remotely controlled by an Android application. It covers the research of the device and components needed. Besides alternatives of the component usages are considered and methods to replace the optional features in the vacuum cleaner is discussed. The focus of this project is to create a vacuum cleaner which is relatively cheaper compared to the devices that can be found in the current market. It includes the background study, vacuum cleaner design, application development and prototype testing.