Fibonacci Path Planning Algorithm for Robotic Waiters

Abstract

This paper portrays the idea and implementation of Robotic Waiters. This project implements a path planning algorithm for hotel management. Usually, we find humans serving food at the restaurants, sometimes there might be errors while delivering the food at the defined table or serving wrong order at a wrong table. So, to overcome these errors, we have tried to implement a prototype of Robotic Waiter to serve the food. With Raspberry pi as the main controller, we have integrated L298N motor driver and IR sensor array. The Robotic Waiter works on a path planning algorithm, “Fibonacci algorithm”, to count the table number through which it can check if the entered table exists or not. This method aims in reducing the work of going to each table and check for its existence. Further the line following algorithm makes the robot to follow the laid track properly.