Design and Analysis of a Sweeping System for Cleaning Vehicles Using Two Circular Brushes and a Cylindrical Brush

Ari B.; Ascencio J.; Silva Y.; Mendoza A.; Villanueva J.; Diaz C. · SSRG International Journal of Mechanical Engineering (2025) · DOI: 10.14445/23488360/ijme-v12i10p114

Resumen

Waste and other pollutants in the streets affect people’s quality of life and health, as well as hinder pedestrian and vehicular traffic. In response to this problem, cleaning robots have been developed with different functions, methods of acti on, and forms of operation, but most of these robots only clean dust and are unable to clean in the corners, where most debris accumulates. That said, this study aims to design a cleaning system that is capable of cleaning objects larger than dust and smaller than a 500 ml bottle, which consists of 2 circular brushes and 1 cylindrical brush in the middle-front of the robot so that the garbage from the streets is directed to a container which is in the same robot, the design is carried out in a CAD/CAE software and subjecting them to simulations of stress and deformation in the same software to validate the feasibility of the design. As a result, the specifications of each of the elements of the system, the result of the simulations, and the materials with which the robot is built, as well as a comparison with another cleaning system and conventional cleaning, are used to validate the design of this cleaning system using brushes.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa