Development of Air Conditional Route Inspection Robot

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1 Development of Air Conditional Route Inspection Robot A. Mohamad Falihin Yusoff, B. Babul Salam KSM Kader Ibrahim, C. Herdawati Abd Kadir and D. Haziah Hamzah -., Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, UTHM Abstract The central ai~ conditioning system is becoming the main part of the modern building. However, the regular cleaning and pipeline inspection rely on human is not only labor-intensive but also less effective. This paper presents the developmknt of a computer controlled air conditional route inspection robot. The movement and speed of the inspection robot can be controlled remotely by using a joystick. This robot can be used to detect a leaking hole based on heat detection and clean the air conditioning route. The operator can monitor the robot's inspection by using video that are captured through a wireless camera on the surface of the robot. The robot is controlled using PIC16F877A and Visual Basic 6.0 program is created to interface with computer. This prototype of robot showed that the operational was successful.this user friendly inspection robot is expected to overcome the inspecting and cleaning the air conditional routes problem in the fastest and easiest way. Keywords - Inspection robot, air conditional route, PIC, visual basic.

6 air conditioner, so the problems maybe have some leaking holes. The inspection robot also be more effective with add the battery level to check the voltage of the battery will be save to make the robot function and move properly. The brushes has made to brush any dust along the routes in air conditional. LED help the inspection robot to light the routes because dark and easier for user to control the inspection robot movement by their joystick. All the navigation or movement will be see from computer with the helping from camera wireless (I1 and Kwan, 2006). Figure 8: Overview of Inspection Robot The robot is called inspection robot from the fact that it is designed to inspect the air conditional route and is able to move fast and clean the route. To sum up, the main concern is to design and develop of inspection robot. This system is basically using particular hardware and software that enables it to operate as expected. In this project, the PIC16F877A is a very important because the PIC act as the controller all the system. Then, the computer with VB 6 as their plant for inspection robot. So, the servo motor as a tires for inspection robot to make the robot move forward and reverse along the routes air conditional, the camera to help the user to monitor the routes. The navigation of the robot can be done by using joystick. The temperature sensor help to detect the leaking, the level of battery also able to be checked. The inspection robot will be applied for real routes in air conditional. The control was used by making interface between PIC and visual basic in both directions; sending data from computer to robot or vice versa. Overall benefits of inspection robot to these operations include reduced number of workers and able access to unreachable areas by human. REFERENCE [I] R. C. Luo, K. L. Su,.A mu1 ti agent multi sensor based real-time sensory control system for intelligent security robot. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Autonzation, vol. 2, 2003, pp [2] Sakamoto, Hara, Hosokai, Kinoshita, Abe,"Parallel-Link Robot for Pipe Inspection", Shinryo Corp., Ibaraki, Japan, 2005, November, [3] Nawab, Chintamani, Ellis, Auner, Pandya, "Joystick Mapped Augmented Reality Cues for End-Effector Controlled Teleoperated Robots" Mobile Intelligence Corp., Livonia, MI, 2007, March, [4] Jong-11, Kyoung-Kwan, "Face Tracking System using Embedded Computer for Robot System", China Building Mater. Acad., Beijing, China, 2006 October, [5] Zhonglun, Yanqiang, Yayu, Dachao, "The Research and Development of Software and Control Method Related the General Testing Equipment on Air-Conditioning System of Building", China Building Mater. Acad., Beijing, China, 2010, April, [6] Riazollah Firoozian,. Servo Motors and Industrial Control Theory. Springer; 1st edition (December 8,2008) [7] Osama El Huseni,.Visual Basic for Windows,. IbnSina Library, 1994

I. INTRODUCTION MAIN BLOCKS OF ROBOT

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