25-01-2013, 11:14 AM
AUTOMATED BOOK PICKING ROBOT FOR LIBRARIES
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INTRODUCTION:
Library has many connotations. A library is a collection of information resources and services, organized for use, and maintained by a public body, institution, or private individual. In the more traditional sense, it means a collection of books.
Typically we need a librarian to pick the books and hand it over to the person to whom the books are being issued. This might be an easy task incase the library floor area is small. Also, to search for the books by humans takes a lot of time as many a times the books gets overlooked by the human eye.
To automate this process of book finding and picking we suggest a robot with an arm with some degrees of freedom which will be able to findout the book with the required tag and then pick it and place it on the table.
DISCRIPTION:
Here we will be placing the books in a rack and all the books will be tagged by RFID tags and an RFID reader will be placed under the robot. The robot will perform a brute force method search and incase the book is found, the robotic arm will lower until the IR obstacle sensor placed over the arm detects the book and then the gripper will close the jaws to get an hold of the book and then the robotic arm is lifted after which the robot moves in the reverse direction to the place it started from and places the book.
The same principal can be used in the supermarkets to make an automated item collector.
In this case, the proposed robot will make the life of the librarian a lot simpler and the books can be tagged easily. The essential requirement in this project is the correct designing and fabrication of the lever, connecting Arms, motors, the gripping mechanism and the load bearing capacities.