In today’s world there is an acute need of automating exchange of information-both logical and physical. In most offices there is a shortage of manpower. Thus my project aims to provide an infrastructure to transfer the physical data without human intervention.
2. INDEX
INTRODUCTION
LITERATURE SURVEY
ANALYSIS, DESIGN AND MODELLING
IMPLEMENTATION DETALS
ISSUES
LIMITATIONS
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
3. INTRODUCTION
In today’s world there is an acute need of automating exchange
of information-both logical and physical. In most offices there is
a shortage of manpower. Thus my project aims to provide an
infrastructure to transfer the physical data without human
intervention.
PROBLEM OBJECTIVES
1. Delivery of stationeries in secure and fast way without
human intervention.
2. Keeping the cost as minimum as possible.
3. Simple and reliable communication.
4. Easy access to users using different operating system.
5. User friendly operation.
4. LITERATURE SURVEY
After a comprehensive study of the existing literature, the brief results of
research papers are as follow:
The first paper discusses how to deal with the problem of telepresence of
human beings while the robot is performing the tasks. The possible
solution to this problem as proposed in the paper is introduction of a Co-
robot. With this idea as proposed in the paper, Introduction of voice as a
medium to contact the robot as well as instruct and execute the
commands has been implemented using Bluetooth module along with
Android app.
Based on the second paper, the database of office service robot has been
designed according to the requirements of the users.
The design of the robot is based on the study of the paper, it comprises of
four wheels such that it is balanced and can carry the weight from one
cabin to another.
In this paper, the idea of close proximity to humans for the robot has been
the base for designing the route as well as Wireless communication for the
users.
5. ANALYSIS, DESIGN AND MODELLING
The functions implemented on the office service robot are as follow:
1. Detect Cabins: Using fixed path algorithm for the moving robot would be
detected.
2. Wireless transmission of signals between robot and the pc (moving and
static robot): The signals are transferred from one robot to another robot
using Bluetooth module.
3. Bring a glass of water: Fulfil daily utility requirements in a friendly
environment is the task of the robot.
4. Identification of the cabins: The robot will identify all the cabins and
execute instructions accordingly.
5. File transfer from one cabin to another: After processing the request, the
office robot will execute the command requested.
6. Can be accessed using a cell phone: Android App designed to establish
Bluetooth communication between the robot and the users and making it
easier for the user to access the commands.
7. Voice Control: A voice command can be send to the robot using the
android App making it more convenient for the users.
6. IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
Motion planning (also known as the "navigation problem" or the
"piano mover's problem") is a term used in robotics for the
process of breaking down a desired movement task into discrete
motions that satisfy movement constraints and possibly optimize
some aspect of the movement.
For example, consider office service robot inside a building to a
distant waypoint. It should execute this task while avoiding walls
and not falling down stairs. A motion planning algorithm would
take a description of these tasks as input, and produce the speed
and turning commands sent to the robot's wheels. Motion
planning algorithms might address robots with a larger number
of joints (e.g., industrial manipulators), more complex tasks (e.g.
manipulation of objects), different constraints (e.g., a car that can
only drive forward), and uncertainty (e.g. imperfect models of the
environment or robot).
7. ISSUES
The Issues emerged during implementation are as follow:
An office service robot that is functionally correct, but that detects attacks
too slowly is of little use. Thus we must enumerate several performance
requirements. The office service robot performance requirements include:
1. The office service robot must not place undue burden or interfere with
the normal operations for which the systems were bought and deployed to
begin with. This requirement makes it necessary for the agents to be
cognizant of the consumption of network resources for which they are
competing.
2. The Office service robot must be scalable. As new computing devices are
added to the network, the office service robot must be able to handle the
additional computational and communication load.
8. FUTURE WORK
1) Automatic Power saving mode:
The robot will enter this mode whenever it is not called for a
fixed duration. An interrupt generator circuit will give interrupt
to the microcontroller whenever it detects that robot is being
called and will wake the robot.
2) Automatic Battery charger:
Whenever the robot detects that battery is discharged below a
certain safe voltage level, it will by itself go to the charging node.
At that point some mechanism can be provided which will
automatically connect the battery terminals to the charger. It can
be accomplished by using magnets.
9. CONCLUSION
This project is essentially a combination of
mechatronics, motor control, micro-controllers,
Bluetooth communication and basic hardware and
software know-how. It is an expansion on the
predefined path Robot to make it accurate, fast and
power efficient.
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