Autonomous Room Mapping Vehicle

Abstract

With the world moving to an automated platform, robots are finding application in almost all domains to reduce the human effort. One such domain is to find a path in an unknown environment. The objective of this paper is to develop a room mapping robot that is able to map its surrounding environment. This allows the user to map areas that are not suitable for humans to traverse in. The developed model will be integrated with a computer using Bluetooth modules which enables the data exchange between the computer and the robot. The data gathering or scanning of the environment is done using a Sharp IR sensor. The sensor will be mounted on a servo motor to control the speed and direction of the scanning. The data obtained is transmitted to the computer where the data received will be further processed to obtain a map of the scanned environment.