Automatic Serving Robot

Project Description:

In this era and society where new concepts and new applications of AI and robotics are increasing at lightning speed. Robots have become or another way an integral part of human life. With the same concept, we thought why not make and robot which can serve at a restaurant just like any normal restaurant waiter. Here this robot – ASR (automatic serving robot) can do just the same work as any other waiter. This bot charges up overnight and when the kitchen starts, with a touch on its input screen this bot activates and reaches its designated position waiting for kitchen staff to put plates in the inner compartment of the robot. Here 4 plates could be put at a one-time serving. When plates are put at position a signal has been triggered which activates the plate selection array to select on which table this plate should be delivered. There are features on the touch panel like whether delete the selection or confirm, go button to sent the bot for serving, restart button to boot up the whole system again. And manual control button transfers all auto control to manual control.
Once the sequence of the plate and its respective table is set, the robot goes to those tables, opens up the glass door of the compartment and prints a message on the screen to take the plate from inside and once the plate has been taken it wishes the customer with “ bone appetite “ message. The bot does this with all the plates until all plates have been served. Once that’s done it comes back to the kitchen and waits for the next round to begin. Bot travels based on preloaded data where encoder motor sends fixed pulses and microcontroller counts them and decides how much it has travelled and how much distance is left to travel and in which direction to travel. In all this travel its bot has some safety features too. Such as ultrasonic sensors which trigger interrupt and stops the bot whenever something comes too close to the bot. Two infrared sensors let manual control take over auto control. This feature is also helpful when moving robots for maintenance. Not only the technical features are all up to the mark but aesthetic perspectives are also been fulfilled with dynamic design.
We won’t say that this is the limit for this flexible design. Changing code for different applications and changing infrared to Bluetooth or adding tracks instead of wheels also removing inner compartment and putting a complete refrigerated system, also adding vacuum cleaning at the bottom and another system at the top body, this all could be done with not so big changes.
Our target audience varies wildly like from a single institute to an individual user. Many restaurants can use our project in multiple units. Hospitals can use as entities to travel instruments or medical; items from one place to another. It can also be used as an erred runner in-house. While travelling it can be used as a storage unit with the attached or detached function of the refrigerator. Offices can use it for errands like coffee for employees or move multiple files/records from one place to another. If asked by the user, the unit could be made with the function of suction to clean the floor.

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