Autonomous Stair Climbing Robot

Abstract

An autonomous robot, also known as simply an autorobot or autobot, is a robot that performs behaviors or tasks with a high degree of autonomy. Autonomous robotics is usually considered to be a subfield of artificial intelligence, robotics, and information engineering. Specifically, “autonomous robots can help: Increase efficiency and productivity. Reduce error, re-work, and risk rates. Improve safety for employees in high-risk work”environments. In this COVID era every 4 out of the 5 Fortune 500 e-commerce companies and especially the e-commerce giants like Walmart , Amazon and Flipkart are focusing even more on contact less delivery. Delivery using automated bots is a concept that can be used even after the Covid situation gets over. The popularity of e-commerce buying is exploding, and the phenomenon has huge implications for shippers and distributors. To paraphrase Charles Darwin, “those companies best prepared to adapt to this new reality are the ones that will flourish while laggards will be left in the dust”. “Logistics is all about movement from one place to another. This movement happens across facilities and within facilities. While AGVs (AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLES) have found their way into applications of material movement inside a warehouse, they are designed to move across flat surfaces with minor undulations (in some cases requiring specialised mezzanine surfaces). This paper comes up with conceptual building and designing an autonomous robot which can work on flat surfaces and even climb up and down standard stairs with a payload of 3-5kg. This paper further will inform you about the conceptual building of an autonomous stair climbing robot involving all the steps like sensor fusion , navigation , tracking , mapping and path planning.