Development of Autonomous Flyer Delivery Robot

• Main Author: Tesfaye Wakessa Gussu
• Other Authors: Lin Chyi-Yeu
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/66590946757412607466

博士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 機械工程系 === 105 === This thesis aims at developing an innovative robot that can hand flyers to potential customers in a fully autonomous manner in both indoor and outdoor environmental settings. Thus, the work entailed in this thesis targets at designing and developing a socially interactive robot with autonomous flyer delivery function. The design and development of this robot employ a modular design approach wherein the robot comprises an autonomous flyer delivery means and a mobile platform. The flyer delivery means is an intricate internal mechanism, comprising a flyer feeding, flyer picking, flyer forwarding and flyer conveying sub-module through which the flyer traverses to the robotic palm; a swappable cassette sub-module for stacking flyers of various sizes ranging from A5 to A7 and tissue packs to the robot palm that is configured at a reachable height for most people including kids and disable person on wheelchair; a display and audio sub-module for interacting with people; a Kinect sensor for detecting an approaching person. The mobile platform module of this robot is also designed for high stability, and with obstacle avoidance capabilities. Finally, a prototype of this robot is developed and displayed on a number of exhibitions held in Taipei, in the year 2016, where it gained significant attention from people who pumped into it. It was observed that the developed robot could provide the flyer delivery service effectively as expected. It can be concluded that this type of socially interactive service robot has a great potential opportunity of becoming a product in intelligent service robot market.