Autonomous wall painting robot | |
| Author | Maheepala, Sammu Arachchige Don Dulan Hasantha |
| Call Number | AIT Caps Proj no.ME-15-31 |
| Subject(s) | Robots--Control systems Autonomous robots |
| Note | A capstone project report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering Mechatronics Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Caps. Proj. ; no. ME-15-31 |
| Abstract | The main focus of the project is to design, develop and implement an autonomous wall painting robot which could be built at a low cost and off the shelf materials. Over the past few years many advances in robotics and its application has been considered but little research has been conducted on interior wall painting. One major problem faced by humans would be the long and effortful task of painting for hours and hours while being exposed to hazards painting chemicals which causes eye and respiratory system problems.Wall painting, traditionally, has been completed by human hands on scaffolds temporarily manufactured around a subject wall. This, then again, not just is a sort of work performed on hazardous hoisted spots and in unclean environment anyhow, also requires additional work to bring down the scaffolds, hence regularly making it increase the construction term. So it increases the labor cost. The robot can be dividing to two main parts. Painting arm with a roller brush which has motion of vertically to paint the strips in wall and a mobile platform which has motion in horizontally to paint the entire area of the wall. The painting arm consists of horizontal and vertical two arms driven from DC motors via screw bar mechanism. Two ultrasonic sensors mounted to the platform of the robot to ensure parallelism with the facing wall. When mobile platform adjust its orientation with the facing the wall, the controller begins the painting process automatically. Simplicity, efficiency, safety and relatively low weight were considered in this design. |
| Year | 2015 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Caps. Proj. ; no. ME-15-31 |
| Type | Capstone Project |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Department of Industrial Systems Engineering (DISE) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Microelectronics (ME) |
| Chairperson(s) | Mongkol Ekpanyapong; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Manukid Parnichkun; |
| Degree | Capstone Project (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2015 |