Abstract
Through human development and technological expansion, it has become apparent that the potential lies within each individual to have an essential part in the transcendence of society and the community. People less privileged than others may need more strength and determination to surpass their current resources to overcome normal and natural obstacles in order to simulate an environment where productivity and creativity exist. This paper aims to study an approach that will assist the elderly and people of determination in one of the most essential activities practiced by individuals: shopping. The study focuses on facilitating the acquirement of items from shelves and skipping the cashier line. The proposed system is a service robot supported by a robotic arm and a linear actuator as a lifting mechanism, controlled by a remote joystick to help the elderly or disabled people reach items on high shelves. The scanning system is based on barcode detection, using transfer learning. The network was designed using YOLOv2 layers connected to TinyYOLO as feature extraction layers. This network has proven to be the most practical, with 86.4% accuracy and real-time operation with 27 FPS in comparison to using the YOLOv2 layers with DarkNet or VGG19 as feature extraction layers. An anti-theft system is integrated into the robot to improve the reliability of the self-checkout feature. The system uses computer vision GMM and Kalman filter for item detection inside the cart, and the item is validated to be the one that has been scanned, using SURF for structural features, HSV for color, and load-sensors mounted to the base of the cart to measure the item’s weight.
Highlights
Technology has become a necessity for humanity to control the essential aspects required for development and evolution
We propose a smart service robot for elderly and disabled people, presented in multiple subsystems synchronized together
The system is implemented on a shopping cart with a robotic arm equipped with a lifting mechanism to reach high shelves
Summary
Technology has become a necessity for humanity to control the essential aspects required for development and evolution. As people have grown fond of technology and integrated it into every activity of their daily routine, increasing the comfort and confidence toward its results, it would be prudent to use technology to build and simulate the required features and characteristics of an environment for the elderly and disabled people to fulfill their basic desires and enhance their productivity and creativity within society. The motivation behind the research began gradually from the moment we noticed articles about the initiations occurring worldwide to help people of determination become integrated into social tasks, such as schools and hospitals. Was published discussing the obstacles encountered by people of determination inside shopping stores and how such an essential task can become very difficult to perform. Old and disabled people may face difficulties and obstacles in fulfilling this desire. Obtaining items from shelves, waiting in a long cashier line, and having difficulty accessing knowledge about the products are obstacles that they may face. Our service robot aims to solve most of these problems and facilitate the shopping process for people with disabilities
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