Beverage Delivery System
The Beverage Delivery System (BDS) is an ambitious project of mine to create a fully automated inter-home delivery system. Anyone who has built a robot has, at one point or another, been asked the question “but can it bring me a beer?” I’m sure that like me, roboticists all over the world have grown weary of this question. The Beverage Delivery System is the answer to this age old problem, a problem that has plagued mankind since the invention of the canned beverage.
Baxter is the transport component of my Beverage Delivery System (BDS). Supporting Baxter is a fixed location dispenser robot called RoboFridge. You can think of a RoboFridge as a kind of soda vending machine that does not require money. Like a real vending machine RoboFridge supports the dispensing of canned beverages. The concept of the BDS could even be extended to non-food items like medications, DVDs and books.
The BDS process starts when a user requests an item using a simple remote control. Baxter is activated from his sleep mode and navigates to RoboFridge using a variety of navigation techniques. These include dead reckoning using encoders, IR beacons, and line following. Once he arrives Baxter will initiate a docking sequence with RoboFridge. After docking, RoboFridge deposits the canned beverage into Baxter’s cargo area. Baxter then undocks and navigates back to the thirsty user to deliver the beverage.
Finally I can get a frosty cold beverage delivered to me in my favorite easy chair without any effort or argument.
Here is a short video of Baxter and RoboFridge working together. Baxter appears in the current issue of Robot Magazine and RoboFridge will be in the next issue.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvOGwylZOM4
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Steve Norris
www.norrislabs.com
Baxter is the transport component of my Beverage Delivery System (BDS). Supporting Baxter is a fixed location dispenser robot called RoboFridge. You can think of a RoboFridge as a kind of soda vending machine that does not require money. Like a real vending machine RoboFridge supports the dispensing of canned beverages. The concept of the BDS could even be extended to non-food items like medications, DVDs and books.
The BDS process starts when a user requests an item using a simple remote control. Baxter is activated from his sleep mode and navigates to RoboFridge using a variety of navigation techniques. These include dead reckoning using encoders, IR beacons, and line following. Once he arrives Baxter will initiate a docking sequence with RoboFridge. After docking, RoboFridge deposits the canned beverage into Baxter’s cargo area. Baxter then undocks and navigates back to the thirsty user to deliver the beverage.
Finally I can get a frosty cold beverage delivered to me in my favorite easy chair without any effort or argument.
Here is a short video of Baxter and RoboFridge working together. Baxter appears in the current issue of Robot Magazine and RoboFridge will be in the next issue.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvOGwylZOM4
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Steve Norris
www.norrislabs.com
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Shawn Lowe
When all else fails.....procrastinate!
.. this sounds like my old Beer bot back in College .
Used a bar-code reader select what brand one wanted .
Peter KG6LSE
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"Carpe Ducktum" "seize the tape!!"
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Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S.
LOL
-Phil
Beer Bot? Do tell, I'd like to hear!
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Shawn Lowe
When all else fails.....procrastinate!
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When will the BDS software appear on the Robot Magazine website? I have the latest issue, but the website has not been updated.
Nice project.
Regards,
TCIII
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If you are going to send·a Robot·to save the world, you·better make sure it likes it the way it is!
Very nice, I guess next you can program Baxter to carry away your empties.
Cheers,
Zappman
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