Shop Cleaning Robot Vacuum

The Shop Cleaning Robot Vacuum was a senior capstone project proposed by Project Partner, Donald Heer, for the ECE and CS Senior Design Class of 2021. The project partner owns a woodwork shop in Corvallis, Oregon. The shop has a lot of wood waste and small metal objects, such as nails for example. This waste material requires a lot of human effort to clean and an easier way to solve this problem would be to get a robot vacuum to clean up, while there is work going on and also when there is not. The project partner tried buying multiple commercially available robot vacuums but they were not successful as none of them had enough power to work in a woodwork shop. Therefore, he decided to create this interesting project to find a solution for the issue. This project was taken up by the Senior Design students at Oregon State University. The robot not only requires one Electrical Engineering team for locomotion, but two ECE teams and a Computer Science team as well. The electrical engineering side is divided into a power and propulsion team and an embedded systems team, while the computer science team handles the navigation system of the robot. In the power and propulsion part of the project, the robot uses an ATMEGA2560 microcontroller as the brain, two motors to control movement, IR sensors to check dust-bag capacity, a realtime clock to keep count of time, a 12 V 6000 mAh battery to power all of these, which is charged when the robot finds the charging base and plugs itself in. The robot does require some further improvement, as of now it has trouble catching the charging connecters on the charging base, the motors are a little underpowered and could use a phone app for easier user connectivity.

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Artifacts

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Project Closeout Report A report of the closing out of the project for the year 2020-21.   Download
Project Executive Summary Summary of the project.   Download
Project Summary Video Video of the summary of the project.   Link