Development of automatic parcel delivery system using image processing techniques

Abstract

Recently many robots are used on various scenes in industry. It is also desired to make transportation task automatic in the transport industry. We develop an automatic parcel delivery system for personal delivery services. This system has some features that it can be introduced at low cost and delivery not only parcels but also any goods. This system is composed of a table unit and a transport robot. The work of the table unit is pushing out a parcel to the transport robot and the transport robot moves the parcel to the truck. The table unit obtains external information through a camera. This paper develops a vision system for the table unit. The vision system recognizes the parcel and a bar which extrudes the parcel. Then, when the parcel is set on table unit, this unit can extrude the parcel to the transport robot and return the extruding bar to its original position.