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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2010.11.2.508

A Study on the Development of a Home Mess-Cleanup Robot Using an RFID Tag-Floor  

Kim, Seung-Woo (Department of Electronic Information Engineering, Soonchunhyang University)
Kim, Sang-Dae (Department of Electronic Information Engineering, Soonchunhyang University)
Kim, Byung-Ho (Department of Electronic Information Engineering, Soonchunhyang University)
Kim, Hong-Rae (Department of Electronic Information Engineering, Soonchunhyang University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.11, no.2, 2010 , pp. 508-516 More about this Journal
Abstract
An autonomous and automatic home mess-cleanup robot is newly developed in this paper. Thus far, vacuum-cleaners have lightened the burden of household chores but the operational labor that vacuum-cleaners entail has been very severe. Recently, a cleaning robot was commercialized to solve but it also was not successful because it still had the problem of mess-cleanup, which pertained to the clean-up of large trash and the arrangement of newspapers, clothes, etc. Hence, we develop a new home mess-cleanup robot (McBot) to completely overcome this problem. The robot needs the capability for agile navigation and a novel manipulation system for mess-cleanup. The autonomous navigational system has to be controlled for the full scanning of the living room and for the precise tracking of the desired path. It must be also be able to recognize the absolute position and orientation of itself and to distinguish the messed object that is to be cleaned up from obstacles that should merely be avoided. The manipulator, which is not needed in a vacuum-cleaning robot, has the functions of distinguishing the large trash that is to be cleaned from the messed objects that are to be arranged. It needs to use its discretion with regard to the form of the messed objects and to properly carry these objects to the destination. In particular, in this paper, we describe our approach for achieving accurate localization using RFID for home mess-cleanup robots. Finally, the effectiveness of the developed McBot is confirmed through live tests of the mess-cleanup task.
Keywords
Mess-Cleanup; Home Service Robot; Navigation System; Manipulation; Self-localization; RFID tags;
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