Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

Acharya Institute of Technology

Soladevanahalli, Bengaluru 560 107

Project Synopsis Presentation on

Automated Exterior Wall Painting Robot Using
Raspberry Pi
Presented by
Group No Name USN
Hithesh.G 1AY19MT013
Chethan.A 1AY19MT010
15 Gautham Panicker 1AY19MT012

Under the guidance of

Naveen Kumar S.N

Asst.Professor
Department of MTE,
Acharya Institute of Technology
01/21/2023 2022-2023 1
Introduction
• In current era we have multiple technologies to increase the robotic painting automation in
various industries. Embedded system design is a used for many types of product design by
implementing the software and hardware with input and output devices along with
microprocessors.
• The main idea of this automation is to provide exterior wall painting automatically with the help of
robot..
• The main idea to make the robot to move easily along the walls and apply paint smoothly. People
can avoid inhaling the toxic chemical while doing interior painting and also reduce the amount of
time taken to complete the entire painting work.
• The advanced robots are accurate and deliver the results with exact thicknesses. Many creators
have an idea of inventing robots which will create works of art, instead of usual painting it makes
them more creative.
• Others have probe for ways to form the robots economical and used for commercial purpose in
places like interior painting.
Literature Survey
• Here they have discussed about Autonomous UAV spray painting. The incentive of the paper is how to styled 3D
surface painting and how they avoid without any ladders. In this paper paint copter is used and while the robots are
doing the spray painting it described more challenges as need to generate the robotic painting commands for live robot
to carries out the painting. The self controlled spray painting by the unmanned aerial vehicle providing skilled line
painting on a 3D surfaces.
• In this paper human efforts are replaced by automated robot painting to advance the efficiency and to reduce the
painting cost. Here they used a single camera and four laser sensors to sense the range. The position between the
robot and the painting surface is identified through a single image distance calculation .As per developed model, the
wall plane equation and the position of the paint-start point were achieved by robot manipulator. The parameter
estimation about less than 10mm and medians of error less than 6mm and they are comparing the results of accuracy
to the existing method. The future scope is based on to improve the measurement accuracy.
• Here the author presented based on motion precision dynamic feed forward control. It’s very hard to give the accurate
dynamic feed forward control and coefficients. In this method the motion precision is identical to acceleration, velocity
and position of the dynamic model. They are using an atlas method to control the parameters of closed loop feedback
control system. To recognize an efficient feed forward system it’s based on completely dynamic model. Here both the
simulation and experimental solution give the efficiency of the controller with dynamic feed forward compensation is
better comparatively without feed forward compensation. It’s very useful for controlling the robots in industrial field.
Objectives
• Design a prototype of a wall painting robot.
• Paints a specified area of the wall with no obstruction using a
mounted spray gun.
• To make machine structure simple to enable easy mounting as
well as for safety.
• Obstacle avoidance.
• Designing of easily interfacing device
Proposed Methodology
• The proposed methodology will build a robot that you can program to move
around using simple Python commands. The first thing you will want to do is
to connect your motor controller board to your Raspberry Pi, the battery
pack, and your two motors for testing. The instructions here we are using
the Dual H Bridge DC Step up Motor Driver Controller Board which is very
similar to the motor controller boards. The motors require more power than
the Raspberry Pi can provide. Therefore, you will use four AA batteries to
power them. The board used in this project needs to be wired to the
Raspberry Pi. Other boards may connect differently, and some boards can
simply be placed onto the Raspberry Pi. We want to calculate motor based
direction motor and also we have to check which way they are driving the
direction to go front and back.
Requirements (hardware/software)
Hardware Tools
• Raspberry Pi
• IR Sensors Configuration with Raspberry Pi
• DC Motor
• Rack and Pinion Mechanism
• L2993D Motor Driver Connection
Software Tools
• Python REPL
• Visual Studio
Deliverables and Use cases
• Developed a exterior building wall painting robot to paint the wall efficiently. It can
be used to cover the wall uniformly and reduce the painting cost of wall.
• It takes only the initial cost to manufacturing. This type of robot used to save the
human life for the injuries to paint the higher position in apartments and buildings.
• The paint having some poisonous some metal it lead some disorder like the
respiratory problem and some skin problems.
• In our robot to paint the square fit in 2 minutes. But it is only the demo to use
brush module for a future to use the sprayer mechanism to paint the wall to
reduce the time and paint the wall efficiently and precisely.
• The main purpose of this robot is used to save human life while doing external wall
painting.
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