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Design and implementation of an autonomous delivery robot for restaurant services
Yanmida, Dele Z1, Alim, Sabur A2, Imam, Abubakar S3.
Technology advancement in the field of robotics has cut through every facet of human endeavours and employed in human environment to assist in performing tasks and making our daily lives more comfortable. Restaurant service is not exempted from this, as recently robots have been employed to carry out tasks including ordering, fetching, delivering & billing, in the restaurant to make service delivery smarter and more efficient. This study addresses the challenges in a traditional restaurant setting by introducing a model delivery robot as a waiter and a wireless system of placing orders. A novel approach of table detection and localization by a mobile robot through the use of RFID in indoor setting was proposed. The study presents a line following robot utilizing a programmed Arduino module to deliver an item (cup of drink up to 300gram weight) from Kitchen to the table from which the request was made by detecting an RFID tag at table (target) location through the onboard RFID reader on the robot. An android application was also developed for placing orders from customer’s smartphone to a protoboard (receiver) containing a Bluetooth module placed in the kitchen. The performance of the robot was evaluated to determine the suitability and effectiveness of the table detection and localization with the RFID proposed technique. A promising result was observed with close proximity to target with an average error of 5% recorded.
Affiliation:
- Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria
- Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria
- Nigerian Defence Academy, Nigeria
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