Abstract:
With everyday technological advancements and continual automation of existing processes be it related to industry or one’s home, in recent years, a need and likeness for smart home systems, smart products & automatic machines, has emerged in market. Coping to the need many such products have been developed and are available in market. Going through prospective areas of product development we found out that there was no product in market which may provide the facility of autonomous cooking and thus we thought of exploiting the opportunity and decided to develop a prototype system that shall provide an exclusive feature of automated cooking. The project ‘Mr. Chef – An IoT enabled Robot for Kitchen’ is a protype and proof of concept for the idea of Autonomous Cooking. The project comprises of beautiful harmony of Software & Hardware. The Hardware required for the project though available in parts could not prove to be enough for working and thus we engineered and integrated different hardware mechanisms to finally develop a prototype robotic system operational on a work station of 5’ x 3’ area by manipulating two 6-DOF prototype robot arms, Belt & Pinon System by Openbuilds® and custom designed workstation. The Code required to run the system is sole and original work of Project Syndicate. Project being only a prototype operates at very limited scope and is tested for 2 dishes. Hardware limitations like payload weight, non-availability of bionic hand etc. have lead us to work things around. The system operates in a completely known environment. System comprises of 2 main subsystems, (i) Android Application (ii) Robot System. System operates autonomously if receiving command from Mobile App. This is a huge research field, manipulating a 6 DOF robot arm, bionic arm or hand are hot topics of industry today and therefore, there is much potential to explore in this project. For example, object tracking, working in unknown environment, utilizing machine leaning, capturing real world coordinates from images etc. can be added to the project and each individual task is a research topic.
