Development of a Low-Cost Multipurpose Autonomous Navigation Robot

The pandemic has made us forcefully enter an era of contactless transactions. What can we do in such a situation? How can we help the people who are doing their best at the front to help us? This paper focuses on developing a robot that can serve anywhere and everywhere. The study describes the software and hardware development of an autonomous robot that can navigate through dynamic environmental surroundings. The proposed prototype can map the area with a Lidar and after which, when given goal locations in the generated map, can autonomously navigate to the desired position. It is also equipped with a wide-angle camera [Pi cam] to achieve real-time surveillance and implement person following and object recognition abilities. The designed robot can find suitable applications in UV sanitization, food and medicine delivery, and teleoperation purposes.