Autonomous Robotic Cafe

Due to the poor waiting services in many prestigious pakistani restaurant usually leave the customers unsatisfied and furiously disappointed.This issue become very much visible  during the peak hours. To be crystal clear, this noticeable scene happens due to lack of employers during t

Project Title

Autonomous Robotic Cafe

Project Area of Specialization

Robotics

Project Summary

Due to the poor waiting services in many prestigious pakistani restaurant usually leave the customers unsatisfied and furiously disappointed.This issue become very much visible  during the peak hours. To be crystal clear, this noticeable scene happens due to lack of employers during the time when endless customers are storming into the restaurant to enjoy a delicious meal. The employers become puzzled and are unable to manage the proper service which is necessary to be provided to the customers. This consumes a lot of time and hence generates intense service lag which results in disappointment. This provoked us to find an automated solution to this particular problem.

Therefore, we came up with the idea of  Autonomous Robotic Cafe.This idea was turned into reality in other countries like China and Japan and showed improved customer rating of the restaurant. Moreover,it enhanced the revenue earned by the particular restaurant and therefore provided a drastic economic boost. Most of the customers visited the restaurant just to see the robot in function performing its tasks. More and more customers seeped in and so increased the restaurants business status in its respective market. Never the less, for any restaurant to function effectively and stand out in its market, a certain organized system is vital for its survival. Moreover, a well-structured restaurant is liable to attract more customers and provide top standard services to satisfy the customers.

Project Objectives

Our main objectives are to design:

• Automatic Robotic café system,equipped with Robotic Waiter to reduce customers waiting time.
•  Andriod App will also be installed for Automatic menu at every table and to figure out the billing cost before ordering.
• Audio service with the customers.
• LCD service so that the customer could know about the time required for their order.

Project Implementation Method

The project implementation is divided into two parts:

1)Theoritcal studies

2)Experimental studies

For Theoritical studies we will go through different research papers regarding this project. After Literature studies, we will simulate the whole system through software tool. After analyzing the results of simulation we will execute the prototype model of this project .

Benefits of the Project

To provide good quality service most of the prestigious restauants are relying on technology to help for accommodating the influx of customers effeciently.

The robotic cafe will replace not only the current practices, but also have the potential to introduce and create new opportunities that were not previously possible.

Such types of robot cafe system can be used in different areas of human societies like hospitals, libraries and restaurants particularly. 

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

The main brain of the Robotic Cafe is the microcontroller which was used to help with the implementation of the entire system architecture. Arduino Mega 2560 is a microcontroller which has a number of facilities for communicating with a computer, another Arduino, or other microcontrollers.

A line follower robot will be used to follow the complete path within the restaurant. It has black line sensors on it. Whenever the robot starts it sense for black colour. When sensor sense black colour then the robot will move forward on that line. Whenever the value of the sensor changes it is a time to take decision for robot to turn left or right.

An obstacle detector is an intelligent feature of the device, which can automatically sense obstacles on its path. It is designed by using ultrasonic sensor. The principle behind it is that whenever an obstacle comes in front of the ultrasonic sensor there will be a change in output of sensor and this change will be detected by microcontroller and hence the obstacle is detected.

We have used the buttons to indicate the table numbers and will indicate the destination to the robot. To make this happen proper coding is necessary so that the robot finds out the exact route for the final destination. Before doing so, we need to know how to connect the keypad with the Arduino and also figure out the coding necessary for making the keypad function properly.

There are some special types of application of electrical motor where rotation of the motor is required for just a certain angle not continuously for long period of time. For these applications some special types of motor are required with some special arrangement which makes the motor to rotate a certain angle for a given electrical input (signal). For this purpose servo motor comes into picture. This is normally a simple DC motor which is controlled for specific angular rotation with help of additional servomechanism. The main reason behind using a servo is that it provides angular precision, i.e. it will only rotate as much we want and then stop and wait for next signal to take further action.

Final Deliverable of the Project

Hardware System

Type of Industry

Food

Technologies

Internet of Things (IoT), Robotics

Sustainable Development Goals

Decent Work and Economic Growth

Required Resources

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