Development of Automatic Dust Catcher Robot for Multiple Pieces of Clothes

Abstract

If you come into contact with others with dust or animal hair on your clothes, there is a high possibility that you will make the other person develop an allergy or not be able to establish good communication. Therefore, it is necessary to remove dusts and more from your clothes in the morning before going to work or school. However, this process is manual and therefore time-consuming and labour-intensive. To solve this problem, in the past we developed a robot that automatically removes dust from clothes on hangers with a brush. The robot holds and pinches the clothes between two brushes and removes the dust by moving the brushes from top to bottom. It also removes dust from the entire clothes by repeatedly extending the arm with the brush attached and removing the dust. However, this robot could only operate for one garment at a time. In this paper, we develop a robot that can　continuously care for multiple clothes with a system and we added a device to this robot that automatically cleans the brushes. First, this robot rotates the hanger rack. Next, use the Kinect camera to look at the front of the brush and stop the rotation of the hanger rack when the clothes come. Third, remove the dust from the clothes in the same way as the previous robot we created. When the removing dust of clothes is finished, the brushes are cleaned. While the robot is running, the user can spend his time doing other things. For example, by using this robot, you can make better use of your valuable morning time for yourself instead of using it to dust your clothes.