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Robotic Cleaning and Maintenance Techniques for Smart Homes

Author(s): Y. Li1, X. Wie1
1The Chinese university of Hong Kong
Y. Li
The Chinese university of Hong Kong
X. Wie
The Chinese university of Hong Kong

Abstract

Household robots are accelerating the evolution of smart-home living, and effective cleaning depends heavily on reliable perception and navigation. This study improves image-recognition capabilities within a robotic cleaning system by focusing on its image-processing module. The proposed approach refines image preprocessing and feature extraction to suppress noise and enhance robustness, and integrates regional stereo-matching constraints to achieve more accurate region-level correspondence. Dynamic obstacles are tracked in real time using a SURF–KLT scheme, and a Greedy strategy is then applied to pinpoint moving targets, lowering collision risk and increasing cleaning coverage. Experimental results show an image-matching accuracy of 99.7%, with an mAP@0.5 of 0.932 and stable training precision–recall behavior. In practical cleaning tests, the robot successfully identified 23 pieces of household waste and computed a weighted total score of 39 to support optimal path planning.

Keywords: region stereo matching constraints, SURF-KLT algorithm, Greedy algorithm, dynamic tracking
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