With the wide application of the gallium nitride (GaN) preparation method based on Metal–Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD), the automation of MOCVD equipment has become a research hotspot. This paper explores the automation scheme of MO...
Cleaning is an important factor in most aspects of our day-to-day life. This research work brings a solution to the fundamental question of “How clean is clean” by introducing a novel framework for auditing the cleanliness of built infrastructure usi...
Wall cleaning robots are developed to cater to the demands of the building maintenance sector. The ability to climb vertical surfaces is one of the crucial requirements of a wall cleaning robot. Robots that can climb vertical surfaces by adhesion to...
Glass-façade-cleaning robots are an emerging class of service robots. This kind of cleaning robot is designed to operate on vertical surfaces, for which tracking the position and orientation becomes more challenging. In this article, we have p...
The façade cleaning of high rise buildings is one of the hazardous tasks that is performed by human operators. Even after a significant advancement in construction technologies, several newfangled skyscrapers are still using the manual method for cle...
To address the issue of current garbage cleanup vessels being limited to performing garbage cleaning operations in the ocean, without the capability of transferring the garbage from the ocean to the land, this paper presents a spiral-propulsion amphi...
Façade cleaning in high-rise buildings has always been considered a hazardous task when carried out by labor forces. Even though numerous studies have focused on the development of glass façade cleaning systems, the available technologi...
This paper describes the design and development of a cleaning robot, using adaptive manufacturing technology and its use with a control algorithm for which there is a stability proof. The authors’ goal was to fill the gap between theory and practical...
Cleaning is one of the fundamental tasks with prime importance given in our day-to-day life. Moreover, the importance of cleaning drives the research efforts towards bringing leading edge technologies, including robotics, into the cleaning domain. Ho...
In response to the challenges posed by the difficult cleaning of tunnel retro-reflective rings and the unsuitability of existing climbing robots for ascending tunnel retro-reflective rings, a tunnel retro-reflective ring cleaning robot is proposed. F...
Staircase cleaning is a crucial and time-consuming task for maintenance of multistory apartments and commercial buildings. There are many commercially available autonomous cleaning robots in the market for building maintenance, but few of them are de...
To address the cleaning requirements for marine growth on offshore platform jackets, an underwater cleaning robot featuring a combined “chassis + thruster-assisted adhesion + magnetic adhesion” mode is designed. The robot is equipped with...
In recent years, the increasing construction of high-rise buildings has led to the widespread use of glass curtain walls. Regular cleaning is essential to maintain their aesthetic appeal and functionality. However, manual cleaning methods pose signif...
The safe removal of residual flammable contaminants from vertical mixer blades is a crucial challenge in aerospace propellant production. While robotic cleaning has become the preferred solution due to its precision and operational safety, the comple...
This paper presents an approach to the estimation of a window shape for increasing the adaptability of glass façade-cleaning robots to different buildings. For this approach, a window scanning robot equipped with a 2D laser range scanner insta...
The role of mobile robots for cleaning and sanitation purposes is increasing worldwide. Disinfection and hygiene are two integral parts of any safe indoor environment, and these factors become more critical in COVID-19-like pandemic situations. Door...
Steam mopping is an eco-friendly solution for cleaning and disinfecting floors, avoiding harsh chemicals or harmful UV lights. Currently, commercial steam mopping systems are manually operated, which is laborious and unsafe. This work presents the de...
Domestic chimney cleaning is still mostly a manual procedure which can be overly complex, dangerous, and expansive. This paper describes the design of a novel robotic device for chimney cleaning that aims to provide a valuable alternative solution to...
In this paper, a cleaning robot is designed to remove the marine fouling attached to a marine steel pile. In the following study, in order to analyse the process of cleaning marine fouling attached to a rough substrate, the barnacle is taken as a typ...
Cleaning robot has the highest penetration rate among the service robots. This paper proposes a high-efficiency mechanism for an intelligent cleaning robot automatically returns to charging in a short time when the power is insufficient. The proposed...
Robot-aided outdoor cleaning is a challenging task with plenty of room for improvement. The cleaning profile of a robot should be adjusted based on the availability of litter to ensure proper and efficient cleaning. This article proposes a novel syst...
Debris detection and classification is an essential function for autonomous floor-cleaning robots. It enables floor-cleaning robots to identify and avoid hard-to-clean debris, specifically large liquid spillage debris. This paper proposes a debris-de...
Periodic cleaning of all frequently touched social areas such as walls, doors, locks, handles, windows has become the first line of defense against all infectious diseases. Among those, cleaning of large wall areas manually is always tedious, time-co...
A hydraulic drive-based self-propelled photovoltaic panel cleaning robot was developed to tackle the challenges of harsh environmental conditions, difficult roads, and incomplete cleaning of dust particles on the photovoltaic panel surface in photovo...
The utilization of photovoltaic (PV) cleaning robots has proven to be an effective method for maintaining the conversion efficiency of utility-scale PV power plants by mitigating the impact of dust accumulation. However, ensuring the safe operation o...
In this paper, a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL)-based approach for learning mobile cleaning robot navigation commands that leverage experience from expert demonstrations is presented. First, expert demonstrations of robot motion trajectories in si...
Professional cleaning and safe social distance monitoring are often considered as demanding, time-consuming, repetitive, and labor-intensive tasks with the risk of getting exposed to the virus. Safe social distance monitoring and cleaning are emergin...
This work presents a table cleaning and inspection method using a Human Support Robot (HSR) which can operate in a typical food court setting. The HSR is able to perform a cleanliness inspection and also clean the food litter on the table by implemen...
Rope-driven robots are increasingly being applied for the efficiently cleaning of glass curtain walls. However, increasingly complex wall surfaces and the various shapes of obstacles may block the robot and reduce coverage. In this study, three-DOF r...
Robot-aided cleaning auditing is pioneering research that uses autonomous robots to assess a region’s cleanliness level by analyzing the dirt samples collected from various locations. Since the dirt sample gathering process is more challenging,...
Rope-driven robots are increasingly used to safely and efficiently clean complex glass curtain walls. However, continuous global cleaning is difficult for most robots because of their poor performance in overcoming obstacles and adapting to curved su...
Steel gates are widely used in river and sea engineering to ensure water retention and flow regulation. Due to the attachment and the alternation of dry and wet environments, water retention easily causes corrosion and destruction, while the attachme...
Maintaining mechanical stability and achieving precise motion control on cylindrical surfaces remain critical challenges for underwater jacket cleaning robots. To address these issues, a systematic mechanical model is initially established for a stan...
This study presents a practical approach to developing a prototype outdoor cleaning robot with reduced hardware and software complexity. While indoor cleaning robots are widely adopted, their outdoor counterparts remain costly and less accessible due...
The efficiency of energy usage applied to robots that implement autonomous duties such as floor cleaning depends crucially on the adopted path planning strategies. Energy-aware for complete coverage path planning (CCPP) in the reconfigurable robots r...
In pigeon farming, manure cleaning is predominantly manual, a method that is both slow and costly, and exposes workers to harsh conditions. Addressing these challenges, this paper introduces a cleaning robot for pigeon farms utilizing magnetic strip...
At present, aircraft radome coating cleaning mainly relies on manual and chemical methods. In view of this situation, this study presents a trajectory planning method based on a three-dimensional (3D) surface point cloud for a laser-enabled coating c...
In recent years, more attention has been paid to water surface environment protection. Current water surface waste cleaning mainly relies on manual operations, which are low-efficiency and dangerous. Therefore, in this paper, we design a fully autono...
Whilst Polyomino tiling theory has been extensively studied as a branch of research in mathematics, its application has been largely confined to multimedia, graphics and gaming domains. In this paper, we present a novel application of Tromino tiling...
For mobile cleaning robot navigation, it is crucial to not only base the motion decisions on the ego agent’s capabilities but also to take into account other agents in the shared environment. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a deep reinforc...
In this study, we aim to optimize and improve the efficiency of a Tetris-inspired reconfigurable cleaning robot. Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) is utilized as a powerful tool to target this aim by introducing the best solution among others in...
Wet cleaning robots have seen a boost in popularity in recent years, with notable impact on their technical features and portfolio of functionalities. To improve cleaning results as well as to create unique selling points, robot manufacturers introdu...
Aiming to solve the problem of clearing obstacles in narrow and complex sewers, this paper introduces a visually assisted Sewer Cleaning Robot (SCR) for cleaning sewers with diameters ranging from 280 to 780 mm. The main work is carried out as follow...
In recent years, cleaning robots like Roomba have gained popularity. These cleaning robots have limited battery power, and therefore, efficient cleaning is important. Efforts are being undertaken to improve the efficiency of cleaning robots. Most of...
In the realm of marine aquaculture, the netting of cages frequently accumulates marine fouling, which impedes water circulation and poses safety hazards. Traditional manual cleaning methods are marked by inefficiency, high labor demands, substantial...
Reliable wall-relative localization is required for robotic cleaning of aquaculture-vessel bulkheads, where sensor availability changes across the air–water interface. A two-stage study separated measured dry-wall performance from a controlled...
Autonomous mobile robots have recently become a popular solution for automating cleaning tasks. In one application, the robot cleans a floor space by traversing and covering it completely. While fulfilling its task, such a robot may create a map of i...
In the post-pandemic era, public space safety has emerged as a central public concern. As global public health awareness rose, traditional manual cleaning methods were increasingly inadequate for large-scale and high-standard cleaning requirements. T...
This paper introduces a digital-twin-based system for foam cleaning robots in spent fuel pools, aiming to efficiently clean foam in spent fuel pools. The system adopts a four-layer architecture, including the physical entity layer, twin data layer, t...
Fouling organisms reduce a ship’s fuel efficiency and disturb the ecosystem. Therefore, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and many nations have enacted laws that mandate periodic hull cleaning for removing fouling organisms. However...
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