Autonomous Librarian Robot

The process of retrieving books on bookshelves is an important but time-consuming task in inventory control. In particular, library books are frequently borrowed, returned, and misplaced, which proves a challenge to be tracked daily. To automate the book retrieval process, our team proposed the design of Autonomous Librarian Robot

The mobile platform of the proposed design has three independently controllable wheels on each side, facilitating in-place rotations similar to tanks. Additionally, the platform itself functions as a bookshelf, with a designated space for each book. The manipulator includes four revolute joints, two prismatic joints and is equipped with a clamp-style end effector. This architectural design endows the system with sufficient DOF to retrieve and return books from both the bookshelf and mobile platform.

The advisor for the class was Dr. Sunil A. Agrawal

Credit for my team members: John Darby, Yuhang Zhou, Rahardi Kramadibrata