Vision-Based Mobile Manipulator for Handling and Transportation of Supermarket Products

Robot manipulators are growing more widely employed in the retail market, mostly for warehousing, but automating them in-store logistics processes is still a difficult task. Supermarkets and large stores face many challenges: shortages, handling, placement of single product on shelves. Various issues needed to be considered develop robot which can manipulate products different sizes, shapes, weight limited spaces The aim this article design system address shortage, identification, moving, placements supermarkets by properly incorporating database, camera vision, line following mobile manipulator. A four-wheeled differential drive was designed developed has 5 DOF robotic manipulator it. technique used move it around warehouse. barcode recognition localization sections object detection using SIFT successfully efficiently employed. demonstration usefulness method shown carrying out experiments relevant environment imitates real supermarket.