Development of a Method for Detecting the Posture of a Male urination for an Elevating Toilet Cleaning System

Abstract

Automation of toilet cleaning is demanded in convenience stores. So far, an elevating toilet cleaning system has been developed however the elevating motion was manually controlled. In this study, we automated the motion by providing the user’s status as input to the cleaning system, then assess the developed system. The results showed that the success rate of correct operation was 45.7%, and the ratio that the operation time was acceptable to the user when it worked correctly was 65.6%.