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Smart Wall Painting System

Mr.P.V.Prasad Reddy N.Vijaya Rami Reddy Dr. S Madhava Reddy

Assistant Professor, Department of Assistant Professor, Department of Professor, Department of Mechanical
Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Engineering Department
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of
Technology, Hyderabad, India Technology, Hyderabad, India Technology, Hyderabad, India
e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] e-mail:[email protected]

Dr. K Sudhakar Reddy

Professor and Head of Mechanical Engineering Department
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology
Hyderabad, India
e-mail: [email protected]

Abstract— The objective of this paper is to outline a smart wall painting system for little and medium scale operations. These days robots are
broadly utilized as a part of relatively every application like medicinal application, amusement, military, production lines vehicle businesses, and
so on. However, the utilization of robot is as yet not generally utilized as a part of constructional work. Robots are fundamentally design to build
speed and maximize accuracy of construction field work. The basic point of the paper is to design, develop and actualize Remote Operated Wall
Painting Machine which helps for accomplishing painting hardware requiring little to no effort because of which the sketch work can be
effectively done proficiently and in particular at extremely ostensible cost. The painting machine keeps away from coordinate contact of
chemicals which can be harmful to the human painters, for example, eye, skin and respiratory system issues.. Besides that the idea of painting
method that requires rehashed work time and hand rising make it physical torment, and exertion devouring. Moreover, it would offer the chance
to decrease or take out human introduction to troublesome and dangerous worked system conditions, which would take care of a large portion of
the issues associated with security when numerous activities happen in the meantime. This machine is is easy to operate and no need of labour
required to operate effectively. At the point when development specialists and robots are appropriately coordinated in building tasks,the entire
development process can be better overseen and savings in human work and timing are acquired as an outcome.Wall painting is a redundant,
debilitating and risky process which makes it a perfect case for automation. Painting had been mechanized in car industry however not yet for
the development business. There is a strong requirement for a portable robot that can move to paint walls of buildings. In this paper, the
conceptual plan of a an autonomous wall painting robot is portrayed comprising of an arm that sweeps the dividers vertically and is fitted on a
versatile robot base to give the lateral feed movement to cover the painting area. The design objective is to fulfill the criteria of straight
forwardness, low weight, ease and quick painting time. Ultrasonic sensors are fitted on the arm and the portable base to alter as far as possible
and move in the room territory. A control system is intended to direct the arm movement and plan the versatile base movement.

Keywords- Robots, smart wall painting system, Ultrasonic sensors, control system, automation

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I. INTRODUCTION industry began in the mid 90‟s intending to advance

hardware operations, enhance wellbeing, upgrade impression
Building and construction is one of the significant ventures
of workspace and moreover, guarantee quality condition for
the world over. In this quick moving life construction
building tenant. After this, the advances in the robotics and
industry is likewise growing quickly. Be that as it may, the
automation in the construction business has developed
works in the construction business are not adequate. This
quickly.
lacking work in the construction business is a direct result of
the trouble in the work. In construction industry, amid the Despite the advances in the robotics and its wide
work in tall structures or in the locales where there is more spreading applications, painting is also considered to be the
dangerous circumstance like inside region in the city. There difficult process as it also has to paint the whole building. To
are some different purposes behind the deficient work which make this work easier and safer and also to reduce the
might be a direct result of the change in the instruction level number of labors automation in painting was introduced. The
which make the general population feel that these sorts of automation for painting the exterior wall in buildings has
work isn't as lofty as alternate occupations. The construction been proposed. Above all these the interior wall painting has
business is work concentrated and led in risky circumstances; shared little in research activities. The painting chemicals can
in this manner the significance of construction robotics has cause hazards to the painters such as eye and respiratory
been acknowledged and is developed quickly. Applications system problems. Also the nature of painting procedure that
and acts of robotics and automation in this construction requires repeated work and hand rising makes it boring, time
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and effort consuming. These factors motivate the The second image shows how this arrangement is hung over a
development of an automated robotic painting system. This wall. The dc motor on the left is used to maneuver the system
project aims to develop the interior wall painting robot. This up and down over the wall by using a screw thread on the
automatic wall painting robot is not designed using shown spoke.
complicated components. This robot is simple and portable.
When the mechanism is initiated at the first position the pump
The robot is designed using few steels, conveyor starts spraying the paint and the RGB sensor guides the nozzle
shaft, spray gun and a controller unit to control the entire such that the paint is even throughout. The Arduino senses this
operation of the robot. This robot is compact because of high from information from the RGB and rotates the dc motor to
speed and pressure capabilities they have. Due to elegant and move the nozzle on a horizontal plain and the stepper motor
simple control systems it can control noise vibration and does connected to the screw thread to move the nozzle and the
silent operation and no vibration is produced. It has longer arrangement up and down depending on where the painting
life, flexibility and it is efficient and dependable, and the needs to be done.
installation is simple and the maintenance is also easy. Some
of the conditions that have to be considered while using this
robot is that the system is operates in pneumatics, so it needs
air tank or compressor and the electric shock is always there,
which makes the machines ugly and dust and dirt are
adhering to them.

II. EXPERMENTAL PROCEDURE

The objective of this paper is designing a “Smart Wall

Painting System”. The system consists of microcontroller, DC
stepper motor, RGB sensor and power source. Using the RGB
sensor, we can detect the intensity of the color sprayed onto the
wall. When the rate of spraying is stored on the
microcontroller, it can be transferred to the motor spray pump
that controls the intensity of spray. All these components are
interfaced to the microcontroller Arduino Uno.

BLOCK DIAGRAM

Fig Prototype Model of Smart Wall Painting System

COMPONENTS

There are various types of components that need to be

used in order to make the whole system function, a few of
these components include:

 Arduinouno
 Belt driver mechanism
Fig Smart Wall Painting system  Stepper motor
 Spray nozzle
Using the above order of the block diagram we were
 RGB sensor
able to design the wall painting system as shown below. The
 li-ion battery
first image shows the insides of the systems railing which
holds the nozzle, the motor pump, the sliding mechanism and Arduinouno
the arduino connected to the RGB sensor.

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The Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based on the Stepper motor:
Atmel's ATmega328. It has 14 digital input/output pins (of Brushed DC motors rotate persistently when DC voltage is
which 6 can be used as PWM outputs) and 6 analog inputs connected to their terminals. The stepper motor is known by its
property to change over a prepare of input pulses (ordinarily
Brand Arduino
square wave pulses) into an exactly characterized augment in
Item Height 25 Millimeters
the shaft position. Each pulse moves the shaft through a certain
Item Width 5.5 Centimeters
angle.
Item Weight 91 g
Product Dimensions 8 x 5.5 x 2.5 cm Product Specification:
Item model number A000066
Voltage : 1.8 V Current : 0.4 A
RAM Size 8 KB
Torque : 4 Kg-cm Step Angle: 0.9 deg / step
Computer Memory Type SRAM
Motor Dia.: 50 mm Total length: 23 mm
Voltage 5 Volts
Shaft Diameter: 5mm
Operating System None
Shafts Length: 12mm Weight: 250 grams.
The Arduino Uno can be powered via USB connection or
Holes Centre Distance: 31mm x 31mm
with an external power supply.
It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller;
simply connect it to a computer with a USB cable (not
included) Arduino IDE supports Windows, Mac OS X or Linux

Fig DC Motor
Spray paint nozzle:

A nozzle is an instrument intended to control the

direction or characteristics of a liquid stream (particularly to
build speed) as it exits (or enters) an encased chamber or pipe.
Fig 2.3 ARDUINO UNO A nozzle is regularly a pipe or container of change in
Belt driven mechanism cross sectional zone, and it can be utilized to change the
stream of a liquid (fluid or gas). nozzles are as often as
The belt drive mechanism is being utilized here possible used to control the rate of stream, speed, course,
because of the fact that it's a fairly basic and less expensive mass, shape, as well as the weight of the stream that rises up
contrasting option to the rack and pinion on some other sliding out of them. In a nozzle, the speed of liquid increments to the
systems in the present market. We would utilize 2 simple and detriment of its pressure energy..
similar gears on either end on the drive and control the one end
fixed to a motor that is guided by an arduino.

Fig. Spraying Nozzle

Fig. Belt Driven Mechanism

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RGB Sensor: rechargeable batteries for compact gadgets, with a high
energy thickness, minor memory impact and low self-
The sensor comprises of a network of color-sensitive
discharge. Beyond consumer electronics, LIBs are
filters and a sensor cluster underneath, as appeared on the
additionally developing in fame for military, battery electric
photo below:
vehicle and aviation applications. For instance, lithium-ion
Each filter passes light of just a single colour to the sensor batteries are turning into a typical swap for the lead–
beneath. A solitary pixel is built out of 4 filters: blue, red, and corrosive batteries that have been utilized verifiably for golf
2*green. There are twice the same number of green filters to trucks and utility vehicles. Rather than overwhelming lead
mirror the physiology of the human eye which is more delicate plates and corrosive electrolyte, the pattern is to utilize
to the green light. The signs from the sensors enable us to lightweight lithium-particle battery packs that can give an
compute the RGB estimations of every pixel depicting it's indistinguishable voltage from lead-corrosive batteries, so no
colour as far as the green, blue and red segments. adjustment to the vehicle's drive system is required.

Fig RGB Sensor Principle Fig Lithium Battery Pack

STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURE:

1. The project is designed to create a system that can

provide hands free wall painting at a cheaper price
2. Initially the systems first check the distance from the
wall and the nozzle using the IR sensor.
3. Once the distance is accurate the pump starts sending
the paint through the nozzle.
4. As the paint is sprayed onto the wall the RGB sensor
senses the thickness and density of the paint that was
sprayed.
5. Based on the output of the RGB the dc motor and the
stepper motor move the painting platform accordingly
Fig RGB Sensor Logic on the wall.
6. The upper and lower limits of the wall and sensed by
Li-Ion battery:
the stepper motor and the signal is sent to the Arduino
A lithium-ion battery or Li-ion battery (known as which stops any further motion of the platform.
LIB) is a kind of rechargeable battery in which lithium ions
By utilizing the above given technique, the system is
move from the negative cathode to the positive anode during
planned utilizing the parts. Once the system is produced the
discharge and back while charging. Li-ion batteries utilize an
working begins once the power is provided. At the point when
intercalated lithium compound as one cathode material,
the instrument is started at the principal position the pump
contrasted with the metallic lithium utilized as a part of a
begins splashing the paint and the RGB sensor directs the
non-rechargeable lithium battery. The electrolyte, which
nozzle to such an extent that the paint is even all through. The
considers ionic development, and the two terminals are the
arduino senses this from data from the RGB and rotates the dc
constituent components of a lithium-ion battery cell.
engine to move the nozzle on an even plain and the stepper
Lithium-ion batteries are normal in home gadgets. engine associated with the screw string to move the nozzle and
They are a standout amongst the most mainstream sorts of the arrangement up and down relying upon where the sketch

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should be finished. Along these lines the divider is painted as pinMode(in3Pin, OUTPUT);
equitably as conceivable utilizing the above parts. pinMode(in4Pin, OUTPUT;
while (!Serial);
SOFTWARE USED:
Serial.begin(9600);
A program for Arduino might be composed in any motor.setSpeed(20);
programming language for a compiler that produces binary }
machine code for the objective processor. Atmel gives an
improvement situation to their microcontrollers, AVR Studio void loop()
and the new Atmel Studio. {
if (Serial.available())
The Arduino project gives the Arduino coordinated {
advancement condition (IDE), which is a cross-stage int steps = Serial.parseInt();
application written in the programming language Java. It motor.step(steps);
started from the IDE for the dialects Processing and Wiring. It }
incorporates a code supervisor with highlights, for example, }
content reordering, looking and supplanting content,
programmed indenting, prop coordinating, and linguistic
structure featuring, and gives simple a single click systems to TESTING:
gather and transfer projects to an Arduino board. It
Software testing is a procedure of executing a program
additionally contains a message territory, a content support, a
or application with the aim of finding the software bugs. It
toolbar with buttons for regular capacities and a progressive
can likewise be expressed as the way toward approving and
system of operation menus.
checking that a software program or application or item:
A program having the IDE for Arduino is known as a Meets the business and specialized necessities that guided its
sketch.[42] Sketches are saved money on the development PC plan and improvement. The test was taken upon how
as content documents with the file extension .ino. Arduino equitably the paint was applied on the wall.
Software (IDE) pre-1.0 saved sketches with the extension .pde.
III. CONCLUSIONS:
The Arduino IDE supports languages C and C++
The Spray Painting Machine is the best system to
utilizing special principles of code organizing. The Arduino
paint the surface. The approach utilizes IR transmitter and IR
IDE supplies a software library from the Wiring project,
receiver to recognize the position of wall. The control is use
which gives numerous regular information and output
for the movement of the DC motor. Later on the work of
procedures. User-written code just requires two fundamental
painting system can be enhanced by utilizing image
capacities, for beginning the sketch and the primary program
processing keeping in mind the end goal to examine the
loop, which are compiled and connected with a program stub
articles and obstacles that exist on the wall so those objecects
main() into an executable cyclic executive program with the
can be naturally vanished while painting.
GNU toolchain, likewise included with the IDE dispersion.
The Arduino IDE utilizes the program avrdude to change The approach utilizes IR transmitter and IR recipient
over the executable code into a text file in hexadecimal to distinguish the nearness of wall. The microcontroller unit
encoding that is stacked into the Arduino board by a loader to control the movement of the DC motor. The system wipes
program in the board's firmware. out the risks caused because of the composition chemicals to
the human painters, for example, eye and respiratory organ
SOFTWARE CODE:
issues and furthermore the idea of painting method that
#include <Stepper.h> requires rehashed work and hand rising makes it exhausting,
int in1Pin = 12; time and exertion devouring. The system is costless, lessens
int in2Pin = 11; work drive for human beings, and decreases time utilization.
int in3Pin = 10; The trap of the system is that the robot keeps painting even
int in4Pin = 9; after the finish of the wall thus it can be overwhelmed by
Stepper motor(512, in1Pin, in2Pin, in3Pin, in4Pin); including some demonstrating items, for example, buzzers.
Later on the painting robot can be improved by utilizing
void setup() image processing keeping in mind the end goal to filter the
{ items and obstructions that are available in the wall with the
pinMode(in1Pin, OUTPUT); goal that those articles can be consequently precluded while
pinMode(in2Pin, OUTPUT); painting.
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