Autonomous Parcel Delivery Robot Design for 6309ENG Engineering

This project report details the design and development of an autonomous parcel delivery robot, intended for use in parcel collection and delivery within a specified environment. The robot is designed to autonomously pick up parcels and deliver them to designated locations before returning to its starting point. The report includes an executive summary, acknowledgments, an introduction outlining the project's aims and objectives, a review of similar existing projects, a project plan and management section detailing team roles and responsibilities, a product definition section specifying user requirements and engineering specifications, a comprehensive design process covering conceptual, embodiment, and detailed design phases, design outputs including engineering drawings, and a conclusion summarizing the project's findings and recommendations. The design incorporates features such as scalability, a supervisory system, security measures for transported parcels, smart power management, and safe navigation, aiming for a cost-effective and human-centered solution. The robot utilizes Arduino mega2560 and a motor shield for control and navigation.

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In this project, we have managed to design
an autonomous delivery robot system used in the
collection and delivery of parcels. The design is
cap0able of autonomously picking up a parcel and
delivering it to the required destination and then
return. The findings demonstrate that the
deployment of the autonomous will be of great’s
helps to logistical tasks such as delivery and
collection of the documents. The workers thus will
be able to shift the focus and time on other things.
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The autonomous vehicles are being applied in
places such as hospitals, homes and even the
offices. The designed autonomous robot will be able
to move from one location to the other without
having specific markers or indicators.
One advantage with the developed system is
that it will be able to navigate within the designated
destinations with high precision to avoid causing
accidents to the adjacent objects or persons.
Besides, the picture below illustrates how the
designed robot will look like.
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Figure 1. Prototype Design of Autonomous
Delivery Robot
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First, we would like to give praise and
thanks unto the Lord God Almighty for the strength
and guidance that he showed unto us during this
whole design process. Additionally, our utmost
heartfelt gratitude goes to Mr.… and Mr. …., our
supervisors for relentless support. Finally, our
gratitude goes to Mr... who assisted us with the
materials and resources.
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Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY..........................................2
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS........................................5
INTRODUCTION........................................................9
Projects statements.................................................12
Aims and objectives of the research.........................12
Objectives.............................................................12
Aims......................................................................13
Review of ongoing similar projects.......................16
Amazon-...............................................................17
Starship technologies...........................................18
Amazon prime air.................................................19
Zipline...................................................................20
Elroy.....................................................................22
Neuro...................................................................23
Robomart.............................................................25
Toyota: Delivery with normal autonomous cars...26
Starship.................................................................27
Eliport...................................................................29
Jd.Com..................................................................31
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Gita.......................................................................32
PROJECT PLAN & MANAGEMENT....................34
2.1.1 Project identity................................................34
2.1.2 Table. 1 Group Members.............................34
2.1.3 Table 2. Document History..........................35
Objectives.............................................................36
Aims......................................................................36
Table 3. Project Deliveries.......................................37
2.1.5 Project restriction.............................................39
During The Project...................................................40
After The Project......................................................41
2.2 Work Breakdown Structure and Schedule.....41
2.2.1 Terms and Conditions..................................41
2.2.2 Definition of Work Contents and
Responsibilities.....................................................42
2.2.3 Documentation............................................43
2.2.4 Development Methodology.........................44
2.2.5 Reporting plan.............................................44
2.2.6 Meeting schedule........................................45
2.2.7 Economy..........................................................45
2.2.6 Table 4. Activities...........................................47
2.3 Resources...........................................................49
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2.4 Product Risk Assessments................................49
3.0 PRODUCT DEFINITION...................................50
User requirements/ Project design concept...............50
3.1 Table 5. Engineering Specifications.................51
3.2 Features of the designed product........................53
Scalability.............................................................53
Supervisory system...............................................53
Security and Safety of the Transported Parcels....54
Smart Power Management...................................55
Human-Centered Technology...............................56
Cost Effective Solution..........................................56
Safe Navigation.....................................................57
4.0 DESIGN PROCESS.............................................58
4.1 Conceptual Design................................................58
4.2 Embodiment Design.........................................61
4.3 Detailed Design.................................................64
4.3. 1 Design Requirements......................................65
.3.2 Control and Navigation..................................70
4.3.3 Sensors........................................................71
4.3.5 Simulation and Modeling.............................73
5.0 DESIGN OUTPUTS.............................................92
7.0 CONCLUSION.....................................................98
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REFERENCES.........................................................100
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INTRODUCTION
The recent advancements in technology
have seen robots being applied in very many areas,
with others until gaining interests and leading to the
recognition of the value of the robots. In every
industry, you will find either a fully autonomous or
semi-autonomous robot which helps human in
performing autonomous tasks, assisting humans as
well as in servicing equipment. In the near future,
the robot market is expected to boom with dramatic
growth in the prices and applications with the
application extending to homes and offices and not
only in the industrial applications. The first robots
to be erected to register into these market is
automated mobile robots. By way of definition, the
automated mobile robots are design platforms
which are able to navigate from one location to the
other while offering services, such as collection and
delivery. The international federation of robotics
annual report demonstrated that there is an increase
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in the adoption of the mobile robotic platforms for
general use [1].
Additionally, the robots will be considerably
increased to approximately 30000, whereby close to
1500 will be autonomously guided robots.
Currently, most of the autonomous robots operate
desirably so long as the deployed environment is
conducive enough to allow for the navigation of the
robots from the starting point to the destination.
However, some industries do not accept the
requirements as they believe that altering the
environment will affect the operation of the robot.
For instance, in the laying of markers, it will be
costly and practical to lay makers on a carpeted
floor as opposed to putting the makers on the road.
Nonetheless, the markers are supposed to guide the
robot, but they should be visible enough so that the
robot does not get lost along the way [2].
An instance is when something blocks the
makers, the robot will lose its direction as well as
the destination. This stands as a bottleneck towards
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the deployment of these robots. Additionally, the
factor of cost is also an issue. These autonomous
vehicles are very costly; for instance, the price of
one autono0mous robot ranges from two hundred
thousand dollars to millions of dollars.
Besides, to gain the full acceptance of the
public, the autonomous projects needs to guarantee
the public of the safety of the consumers. It implies
that areas which are densely populated, the
autonomous designs will need to be able to handle
unique circumstances. For instance, if it loses the
trace of the markers, as the autonomous robot going
to stop or it will rove around ending up causing
insecurity to the consumers? Therefore, these
systems will need to take into account the user
interfaces, stations, specially designed carts,
charging stations as well as planners. This paper
primarily presents an autonomous robot designed
meant for the collection and delivery of parcels.
The design takes into consideration various factors
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