Service Robot Applications for Logistics

Abstract

Logistic service robots are automated systems that can be easily adapted to various environments. Thus, the mobile robot variants can be found even in non-productive fields such as offices, hospitals, postal systems and postal automation services. The efficiency of logistic processes is reflected also through the time of realization. The example is a simple one: food availability logistics in the stores. The United States are currently importing more than 100,000 containers daily of contents that have to be processed, distributed and made available to the users. Robotics as technology provides opportunity to improve the logistic processes in term of smaller defects and shorter times for the realization of certain logistic processes. The paper has given a presentation of the increasing trend of using robotics in logistics. In the future, the application of service robots for logistics is unlimited, in that they will be implemented both in offices, houses, hospitals, post-offices, factories, ports, airports, cities for urban passenger transport, warehouses, etc. The drawbacks that will have to be dealt with in the future include robot's recognition of the environment and system improvement in order to avoid downtimes.