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标题：Development of a Robotic Waiter System
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作者：A Cheong ; MWS Lau ; E Foo 等
期刊名称：IFAC PapersOnLine
印刷版ISSN：2405-8963
出版年度：2016
卷号：49
期号：21
页码：681-686
DOI：10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.10.679
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：The use of robots as waiters in restaurants is on an increasing trend in the service industry. Restaurants owners have begun to look towards robots to aid in serving the customers due to shortage of waiters. We have developed a prototype of a mecanum wheeled based mobile waiter robot for trial runs in a casual dining food outlet. Unlike existing waiter robots, it is autonomous, has higher payload and is able to travel and dock at the target table. However, as restaurants have the most diverse designs and layouts, developing an autonomous system can be more efficient when done in the Robot Operating System (ROS) framework and using a modular robot design. In ROS, path planning and navigation within a target restaurant can efficiently done using digital map of the environment or that generated by SLAM algorithm; with the Adaptive Monte-Carlo (AMCL) in ROS, the position of the robot can be determined and path planning can be done. Preliminary tests show that autonomous navigation is achieved, and the robot is able to dock at a target table and roll out the serving tray.
关键词：KinematicsMobile RobotsRoboticsRobot Operating SystemsNavigation System