Abstract
The rest room in the highway service area occupies a large space and requires cleaning at regular intervals throughout the day, 24 hours. However, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find required number of cleaning staffs, particularly for cleaning during the night. Moreover, today's rest room is more sophisticated and has many more facilities than before, and demand for higher and better cleaning quality is strong. In this paper, we present a small cleaning robot for the rest room. The robot automatically cleans the floor by two cleaning methods: dry, vacuum cleaning for small trash, dust, and hairs, and wet, mopping cleaning for dirt and stains. The robot was tested in the actual rest room environment, and results show that it was effecitive and efficient for automating cleaning tasks in the rest room.
