Design and control of a small mobile robot : robotic vacuum machine

Abstract

Nowadays, people are called for a simple and easy life. By this reason, things have changed to a better life. Robotics industrial is one of the things that help human to improve their life such as in manufacturing industrial and the others. In this project study, robotic vacuum machine was developed. This robotic vacuum machine are able apply on daily life in home, office, and the others places. This robotic vacuum machine is able to help and replace human to do the boring, dirty and dangerous work. All of the function will be developed by using the C programming language. C language was chosen because it compiled to highly efficient code, it was particularly well-suited to electronics application. The program had been load into programmable microcontroller chips (PIC18F452) that functions as a brain of the robot. In the end of this study project, the robot had been tested under three tasks which are in different situation. The three tasks are included random task which the robot moves randomly in a certain area. The second task is the line follower task. For the last task, the robot that able to count the line had been designed. By doing this project study, hopefully it could assist the development progress in this country.