AUTOMATIC AND MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PIPE CLEANING BOT FOR COVID-19 SITUATION

This paper focuses on developing a robot which is used to clean the inner side of pipes automatically with one operator in covid-19 situation. Cleaning inner part of pipes which carry water, gas, oil and other fluids is a challenging task and need to be addressed very effectively. Scales develop inside the pipes not only block the flow but sometimes become dangerous. Normally this process is done manually with more labors of municipal corporations. In covid-19 situation with extended lock down and less labors, pipe cleaning is considered as non-essential. We have designed a pipe cleaning robot using Arduino and ultrasonic sensor which can clean the scales and easily come out of the pipe also. This automated robot can calculate the distance inside the pipe using a sensor and can direct itself inside till the end. It has a rotor at the top which would clean the pipe with the brushes and remove all the dirt too. The uses of the bot are in such pipes where the human hand cannot reach and clean the pipes. The robot can be used to clean different diameter pipes. The shaft of the bot can be adjusted according to the diameter of the pipe. This makes the robot for cleaning multidimensional pipes in an automatic and effective way.