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Apr 25, 2013
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Road Cleaning Robot
Importance of the work
Waste disposal is a crucial problem in developing countries particularly in India due to heavy
population. Presently in India, sanitary workers are using the oldest devices like brooms, iron
plates and bamboo baskets for primary collection of solid waste. Thousands of workers die from
or are affected with respiratory diseases, urinary, skin & eye infection, lung cancer, tuberculosis
etc.
As a solution to manual primary waste disposal, a cost effective garbage cleaning robot is
developed. We call it in Tamil name as “THOOYAN 1” or “2N 1” which is a name which portrays
the cleaning and uses clean solar energy.
Construction and Working
The system consists of very simple but highly efficient mechanism. The main components consist
of a rotating brush assembly (rake), a unique tilting wedge, a conveyor system and a garbage
collection unit.
The rake and wedge assembly serves as the most important component in this vehicle. The rake
is a roller fitted with alternating nylon or jute brushes and metal sheets. The brushes help to
sweep and pick the lightweight litter such as papers, leaves, cups and plastics. The metal sheets
help act as a crusher to crush plastic bottles and cans. This garbage is pushed onto the conveyor
belt over the wedge which is the transmitting medium. The conveyor belt then carries the waste
and drops it in the garbage disposal unit placed at the back. Two DC motors are used to drive
the rake as well as the conveyor system. A solar panel is provided for partial charging of the
battery.
The machine runs on four wheels each driven by individual motors. These individual motors help
attain the necessary torque to run the vehicle. Two wheels on either side are synchronized in
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order to obtain complete 360? turn on the spot and normal forward and reverse motion. This
gives a larger degree of freedom for the robot to collect trash from almost every nook and
corner of the area.
In order to automate this system completely, five sensors are mounted on the vehicle. Robot is
programmed in a certain pattern so as to navigate automatically and detect obstacles to move
in a free path. If encountered by a moving obstacle, the robot is programmed to pause for
duration of 50 seconds and then sense again to move or it will take turn of 180o. The cost for the
design, development and fabrication of this robot is less than 2000 USD which is very less
compared with cleaning products (manually operated) available in market.
Conclusion
The Thooyan-1 robot is developed to address the problems in primary garbage collection. This
cost effective solution also replaces human in solid waste disposal. This robot is the small step to
change the manual waste collection and ensures the safety of sanitary workers particularly in
India.
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ABOUT THE ENTRANT
Name: D Dinakaran
Type of entry: team
Team members:
Dr.D.Dinakaran
Mr.A.S. Mohamed Jiffry
Mr.S.S.Monoj Shekar
Mr.J.A.Mohamed Usman
Mr.M.Janakiraman
Patent status: pending
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Naveen Vignesh • 3 years ago
Indian govt should have a look on it... most needed for our country....
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Ram • 3 years ago
Nice. Essential project for india
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Manoj Sekar • 3 years ago
it will saves our life
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premkumar • 3 years ago
Nice work....realy helpful for our country..
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nandhish • 3 years ago
congrats .. rock
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nandhish • 3 years ago
it will be useful to our country
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Naveen • 3 years ago
Kudos...!!!!
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pbr123 • 3 years ago
awesome project....good luck
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harrisROBERT • 3 years ago
most importent project for our country
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Hema • 3 years ago
Great Idea...Keep on going...
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shanker • 3 years ago
gd guys!!!!!!!
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santosh bhor • 2 years ago
plz respond i need project report urgently
on
1) santoshbhor04@gmail.com
2) shivraj.nanekar5503@gmail.com
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MADU VATHANAA.K • 3 years ago
superb ........its a nice innovation nd essential 1 to save humanity,,,,,,,,,
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Niranjan Kumar • 3 years ago
nice project sir all the best u will definitely win ...........
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dickson • 3 years ago
nice work..........
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christy john • 3 years ago
kollaammmmm..
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Abhishek srivastava • 3 years ago
It should be recognised..it's a need for us..well done.
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sha... • 3 years ago
All the best Dina....Vaazhga un sindhanai, valarga un puthumaithiran
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prabu • 3 years ago
too gd project save the all lifes
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D.Rajeev • 3 years ago
Nice Work. Much needed for india
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Jas Bin Jan • 3 years ago
Very good project for future...
Al the best for all the team mates...
Sply for my dear friend Mr.Usman (Scientist)...
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