Autonomous Lavatory Cleaning System

Autonomous Pool Cleaning: Self Localization and Autonomous Navigation for Cleaning

Cleaning is a major problem associated with pools. Since the manual cleaning is tedious and boring there is an interest in automating the task. This paper presents methods for autonomous localization and navigation for a pool cleaner to enable full coverage of pools. Path following cannot be ensured through use of internal position estimation methods alone; therefore sensing is needed. Sensor b...

Self-traveling robotic system for autonomous abrasive blast cleaning in double-hulled structures of ships

A Technological Survey on Autonomous Home Cleaning Robots

In this present era, people live a very busy life. People in cities have irregular and long working times. In such a situation a person will always find ways of saving time. household chores are the ones that are most dreaded upon. And cleaning a home tops the list. It is not only time consuming, but also its very tiring. Especially for working women it becomes difficult to handle both home and...

A Vision-Based Trajectory Controller for Autonomous Cleaning Robots

Autonomous cleaning robots should completely cover the accessible area with minimal repeated coverage. We present a mostly visionbased navigation strategy for systematical exploration of an area with meandering lanes. The results of the robot experiments show that our approach can guide the robot along parallel lanes while achieving a good coverage with only a small proportion of repeated cover...

Autonomous cleaning of corrupted scanned documents - A generative modeling approach

We study the task of cleaning scanned text documents that are strongly corrupted by dirt such as manual line strokes, spilled ink etc. We aim at autonomously removing dirt from a single letter-size page based only on the information the page contains. Our approach, therefore, has to learn character representations without supervision and requires a mechanism to distinguish learned representatio...