Arduino Based Automatic Car Washing System
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Volume 3 Issue 5, August 2019 Available Online: www.ijtsrd.com e-ISSN: 2456 – 6470
Arduino Based Automatic Car Washing System
Kyaw Kyaw Lin
Lecturer, Department of Mechatronic Engineering, Technological University, Mandalay, Myanmar
How to cite this paper: Kyaw Kyaw Lin ABSTRACT
"Arduino Based Automatic Car Washing In this modern era automation helps us to save time, cost as well as
System" Published manpower. Vehicles are used extensively for transportation. To clean these
in International vehicles there is a need of a proper washing system. The most common
Journal of Trend in problems often encountered while cleaning these vehicles are consumption of
Scientific Research water, manpower and time. The easy and effective systems for maintaining the
and Development vehicles cleanliness become high demand. Therefore, this paper focuses on car
(ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456- washing system using ARDUINO. The exterior of the car will be washed by
6470, Volume-3 | detecting the car on conveyor belt and the processes are controlled by
IJTSRD27817
Issue-5, August ARDUINO. The sensors are placed on conveyor belt at different places for car
2019, pp.2074-2076, detection, washing, cleaning and drying. This system can be applied in car
https://doi.org/10.31142/ijtsrd27817 manufacturing companies after final assembly of car, service stations, car
replacing and maintaining stations, and car body building industry.
Copyright © 2019 by author(s) and
International Journal of Trend in Scientific KEYWORDS: Arduino Mega; Automatic car washing; IR Obstacle Sensors
Research and Development Journal. This
is an Open Access article distributed INTRODUCTION
under the terms of As the technology is upgrading day by day and everyday it creating our life
the Creative easier, so we have to take advantage of these advancements. The world is
Commons Attribution trending towards fastest technology, by looking at all these aspects, the idea
License (CC BY 4.0) came to our mind to make a automatic car washing system. The car washing
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by system is usually associated with fuel filling stations. It consists of large
/4.0) machines with automated brushes.
Automatic car washing system is fully automated with
different stages of washing, cleaning and drying. Mostly it is
done manually in automobile garage or service centers of
automobile companies. This manual way of cleaning car
results in more consumption of water, manpower and time.
The automatic car washing system reduces the use of water
and also manpower requirement.
In this paper, a prototype in which a car enters a washing
station and automatically gets cleaned up is presented. The
various components such as conveyer belt, sensors, dc
motor, dc pump motors, brushes and dryer are used. All
these components are controlled using ARDUINO. Cycles of
washing includes washing with water, and then with
detergent. By using this automatic car washing system, many
cars can be washed and it will save time, energy and
manpower. Such systems can be installed anywhere such as
malls, airports, railway, stations, residential buildings etc. Figure 1 Block Diagram of the System
COMPONENTS OF THE SYSTEM B. DC Pump Motors
The components of the system shown in Fig. 1 are as follows: A DC pump motor is a device that moves fluids in a variety of
ways by using DC currents. DC pumps come in many
A. Arduino Mega 2560 different design types, each with its own method of
The Arduino Mega 2560 is a microcontroller board based on operation, advantages, and preferred [3].
the ATmega2560 (datasheet). It has 54 digital input/output
pins (of which 14 can be used as PWM outputs), 16 analog C. DC Motors
inputs, 4 UARTs (hardware serial ports), a 16 MHz crystal A DC motor is any of a class of rotary electrical machines that
oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, converts direct current electrical energy into mechanical
and a reset button. It contains everything needed to support energy. The most common types rely on the forces produced
the microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a by magnetic fields. Nearly all types of DC motors have some
USB cable or power it with a AC-to-DC adapter or battery to internal mechanism, either electromechanical or electronic,
get started. The Mega is compatible with most shields to periodically change the direction of current flow in part of
designed for the Arduino Duemilanove or Diecimila. [1] the motor [3].
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D. Motor Driver The last stage of car washing system is drying the car for
The L298 Driver is a high voltage, high current dual full which the car is again moved ahead and when the IR sensor
bridge driver designed to accept standard TTL logic levels 5 detects the car in place, the fan turns on and the car is
and drive inductive loads such relays, solenoids, DC and dried as shown in Fig. 5. The delay time is set as 10 seconds
stepping motors. Two enable inputs are provided to enable to get the dry condition. And then, the conveyor is moved on
or disable the device independently of the input signals. The again and when the sensor 6 detects the car, the car is
emitters of the lower transistors of each bridge are removed from the conveyor belt.
connected together the corresponding external terminal can
be used for the connection of an external sensing resistor [2]. For software implementation, Arduino IDE is used to
develop and upload the code to the Arduino Duemilanove.
E. DC Fan Motor The Arduino IDE are supported to Window, Mac OS X and
DC fans are usually available at three nominal voltages: 12V, also Linux. For Arduino software, installations are no
24V and 48V. If the system has regulated power supply in needed. All we have to do is to download and extract it out
one of these, then a DC fan may be selected which will give and save it anywhere you like.
the exact performance required, regardless of the AC input
variables which plague AC fans. Because the speed and
airflow of a typical DC fan is proportional to the voltage
supplied, a single product may be used to meet different
applications by setting the supply voltage to what will give
the desired airflow [3].
F. LCD Display
An LCD is a flat panel display, electronic visual display, or
video display that uses the light modulating properties of
liquid crystals. Liquid crystals do not emit light directly. It is
easy to interface with a micro-controller because of an
embedded controller (the black blob on the back of the
board). This controller is standard across many displays,
which means many micro-controllers (including the
Arduino) have libraries that make displaying messages as
easy as a single line of code. LCDs are available to display
arbitrary images (as in a general-purpose computer display)
or fixed images which can be displayed or hidden, such as
preset words, digits, and 7-segment displays as in a digital
clock [2].
G. IR Obstacle Sensor
Based on a simple basic Idea, this IR obstacle sensor, is easy
to build, easy to calibrate and still, it provides a detection
range of 10- 30 cm. This sensor can be used for most indoor
applications where no important ambient light is present. It
is the same principle in ALL Infra-Red proximity sensors.
The basic idea is to send infra red light through IR-LEDs,
which is then reflected by any object in front of the sensor
[2].
DESIGN OF THE SYSTEM
The design of the automatic car washing system is presented
in Fig. 2. Firstly, IR sensor1 senses the presence of the car. If
the car is presented, the conveyor belt starts. When the car is
detected by the sensor2, it sends signal to the ARDUINO. At
that time, the conveyor belt stops and then the car have to be
washed with soapy water and hence the pump motor is
opened and soapy water is sprayed on the car as shown in
Fig. 3. The delay time is set as 10 seconds for soapy water
and then the conveyor belt starts to go ahead the brushing
process.
After the washing stage the car is moved ahead for cleaning
using brush. The IR sensor3 detects that the car is in place
and hence the car is cleaned using the brushes as shown in
Fig 4. The delay time for brushing is set as 15 seconds and
then, the conveyor belt starts to go ahead sensor 4. When the
car is detected by IR sensor 4, it is washed with water again
to rinse the soapy water.
Figure 2 System Flow Chart of Automatic Car Washing
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CONCLUSION This system can be use in domestic service stations, as there
The automatic car washing system has been presented as a is no compressor and number of loud noise: At the domestic
prototype in which a car enters a washing station and workstation if no compressor is there then this will also with
automatically gets cleaned up. The whole system is the no sound pollution. As ARDUINO is more durable than
automatic so no manpower required: this system is based on other electro-mechanical system, no more space required
ARDUINO automation so totally work is in digital format this and there is no environmental pollution. The module of
wills requires only mechanical assembly. If we use special ARDUINO is very small, so it does not requires large space.
car washing pressure pumps, no DC pump motor will By implementing this automation system, the beneficial such
required, the car washing pressure pumps are automated so as saving time of operation and also man power reduced,
there have no requirement of externally compressed improving the economy of the system will be obtained. Also
pressure. the system is pollution free so it is implementable in market
easily, and thus from this research we can conclude that the
overall working of the system plays an important role in
smart city development ideas because the city becomes
smart. The system becomes easier and cost effective as well
as it has long life to become and look effective and efficient.
REFERENCES
[1] “ARDUINO Mega 2560”, http://www.ARDUINO.com
[2] Anonymous, “IR Obstacle Sensor”, “Motor Driver
(L298)”, “LCD Display”, Research Design Lab ISO
Certified Electro components Company,
http://www.researchdesignlab.com
Figure 3 Result of Washing Process
[3] Anonymous, “DC Fan Motor”, “DC Pump Motor”, “DC
Motor”, Digital Key Electro components Company,
http://www.digikey.com
[4] Anonymous, Self Service Car Wash, TAMMER MATIC,
DiBo Cleaning System, September, 2012.
http://www.dibo.com
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Washing System Using PLC, International Journal of
Figure 4 Result of Cleansing process Innovative Research Journal, Vol. 3, Issue 9, February
2017
Figure 5 Result of Drying Process
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