An Autonomous Assistant Robot for Book Manipulation in Library

Library contains hundreds of thousands of books which are frequently borrowed and returned to the shelves. Searching of books in the library is a time consuming and difficult task. To automate the process of book finding and picking we suggest a robot which will be able to find out the book with required tag and then bring it to the desk. The name of book is given as input to the robot. Line follower robot moves through the predefined path. RFID technology is used to find the book. The robotic arm is used to pick the book. The simulation is performed in PROTEUS. ZigBee module is used for communication between robot and the PC. The robot will return the book to the collection centre. Thus, the customer can deliver the book from the collection centre. This helps and simplifies the job of monitoring the arrangement of books and also reduces the manual routine work done by users.