In this research we develop a robot intended to eliminate the human component in the book retrieval process by autonomously navigating to and retrieving a specific book from a bookshelf. Notably a salient feature of this autonomous robot is the employment of an elementary book detection and identification technique in the formulation of a time-optimal and computationally basic method in contrast to vision-based techniques that has been used by researchers in similar work.
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Chand, A.N., Onwubolu, G.C. (2007). A Mobile Robot for Autonomous Book Retrieval. In: Mukhopadhyay, S.C., Gupta, G.S. (eds) Autonomous Robots and Agents. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 76. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73424-6_12
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