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Introduction To Robotics

The document discusses robotics and its applications in libraries. It describes how robots can be used to retrieve books from shelves, scan printed materials to allow online browsing, and help track inventory. The purpose is to design a library assistant robot that can locate specific books in shelves and deliver them to users.

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Introduction To Robotics

The document discusses robotics and its applications in libraries. It describes how robots can be used to retrieve books from shelves, scan printed materials to allow online browsing, and help track inventory. The purpose is to design a library assistant robot that can locate specific books in shelves and deliver them to users.

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INTRODUCTION

1. Robotics is a branch of engineering and science that includes electronics


engineering, mechanical engineering and computer science and so on. This
branch deals with the design, construction, use to control robots, sensory
feedback and information processing. These are some technologies which will
replace humans and human activities in coming years. These robots are designed
to be used for any purpose but these are using in sensitive environments like
bomb detection, deactivation of various bombs etc. Robots can take any form but
many of them have given the human appearance. The robots which have taken
the form of human appearance may likely to have the walk like humans, speech,
cognition and most importantly all the things a human can do. Most of the robots
of today are inspired by nature and are known as bio-inspired robots.

It deals with conception, design, operation, and manufacturing of robots. There


was an author named Issac Asimov, he said that he was the first person to give
robotics name in a short story composed in 1940’s. In that story, Issac suggested
three principles about how to guide these types of robotic machines. Robots are
used for various purposes in day-today life. With ever growing technology and
competition there is a desire for doing work in less time, also considering economy
in the equation. Keeping this into consideration this project aims at minimizing the
efforts required to arrange books in a library. A library generally consists of
thousands of books and there are two or three employees to arrange them. The
Library Management Robot (LMR) will mitigate the problems by collecting the
books from library counter and then arranging the books, one by one, into shelves.
With the advancement of robotics, automation in various industries and processes
has become widespread. Robotics, design, construction, and use of machines
(robots) to perform tasks done traditionally by human beings. ... Robots are widely
used in such industries as automobile manufacture to perform simple repetitive
tasks, and in industries where work must be performed in environments hazardous
to humans. Robotics develops machines that can substitute for humans and
replicate human actions. Robots can be used in many situations and for many
purposes, but today many are used in dangerous environments (including
inspection of radioactive materials,  manufacturing processes, or where humans
cannot survive (e.g. in space, underwater, in high heat, and clean up and
containment of hazardous materials and radiation). Robots can take on any form
but some are made to resemble humans in appearance. This is said to help in the
acceptance of a robot in certain replicative behaviors usually performed by people.
Such robots attempt to replicate walking, lifting, speech, cognition, or any other
human activity. Many of today's robots are inspired by nature, contributing to the
field of bio inspired robotics. All robots contain some level of  code. A program is
how a robot decides when or how to do something. In the caterpillar track
example, a robot that needs to move across a muddy road may have the correct
mechanical construction and receive the correct amount of power from its battery,
but would not go anywhere without a program telling it to move. Programs are the
core essence of a robot, it could have excellent mechanical and electrical
construction, but if its program is poorly constructed its performance will be very
poor (or it may not perform at all). There are three different types of robotic
programs: remote control, artificial intelligence and hybrid. A robot
with  programming has a preexisting set of commands that it will only perform if
and when it receives a signal from a control source, typically a human being with a
remote control. It is perhaps more appropriate to view devices controlled primarily
by human commands as falling in the discipline of automation rather than robotics.
Robots that use interact with their environment on their own without a control
source, and can determine reactions to objects and problems they encounter using
their preexisting programming. Hybrid is a form of programming that incorporates
both AI and RC functions in them.

Robotics in Library

“Robot is “An automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multi-purpose


manipulator programmable in three or more axes, which may be either fixed in
place or mobile for use in automation applications.” The robots are scrambling,
rolling, flying, and climbing. They are figuring out how to get here on their own.
As libraries provide a growing array of digital library services and resources, they
continue to acquire large quantities of printed materials. This combined pressure of
providing electronic and print-based resources and services has led to severe space
constraints for many libraries, especially academic research libraries. The goal of
the Comprehensive Access to Printed Material (CAPM) is to build a robotic, on-
demand and batch scanning system that will allow for real-time browsing of
printed material through a web interface. The user will engage the CAPM system
that, in turn, will initiate a robot that will retrieve the requested item. The robot
will deliver this item to another robotic system that will open the item and turn the
pages automatically. By using existing scanners, optical character recognition
(OCR) software, & indexing software developed by the Digital Knowledge Centre,
the CAPM system will not only allow for browsing of images of text, but also for
searching and analyzing of full-text generated from the images. “–Researchgate;
Dr. S. Mogali

It is interesting to note that, as the monkey selfie case has underlined, only human
beings can claim copyright. Potentially, the programmer behind the AI could claim
an interest, but with robots having the ability to write, create new works, etc.,
librarians will need to think about this.

Robots, visible like Robbie in Lost in Space, or a disembodied voice in the air or
communications device, will once again change the way people look for
information, at the expense of librarians—just as consumer search engines have
already gone a long way to replicating the traditional role of libraries in helping
find basic information. As robots become smarter, and emerge with more nuanced,
smarter responses, we ignore them at our peril. Realistically, just as Google and
their ilk have become our assistants, there is a wide range of opportunities for our
field by exploiting technology interventions such as robots in libraries.

Purpose of the study

—This paper aims to build and design the Library Assistant Robot which has the
capability to look for a specific book in a shelf, asked by any user, and when it is
found, to deliver it as soon as possible to the user. Tracking of items on shelves is
an important but time-consuming task in inventory control. In particular, books in
public libraries are frequently borrowed and returned, even misplaced, and proves
a challenge to be tracked on a daily basis. This Library assistant robot is an
autonomous service robotic assistant whose functionality includes the assistance of
individuals within a library environment. This project aims to introduce library
automation system, which addresses the fulfillment of the objectives of automatic
retrieval of queued books, arrangement of returned books on the racks as well as
automated updating of the library database.

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