1. Brobot: The Library Robot Joalton Newell’s Senior Design Project: 2011 An autonomous, self-guided robot which will file library books in the correct location and will search for a specified book, returning the book to its requestor. For the sake of this project, the robot’s operations will be limited to a single hallway. A similar project: http://robotgossip.blogspot.com/2005/10/rob ot-librarian.html http://robotgossip.blogspot.com/2005/10/rob ot-librarian.html

2. Final Demo & Specifications Brobot will be able to… Move up and down a corridor Take a picture of a book’s end Interpret a book’s correct shelving position from a picture Place a book in its correct location Determine if a book is in the library Retrieve a book Brobot’s control software will be written in Java and will make use of an OCR Toolkit (e.g. http://asprise.com/product/ocr/index.php?lang=java)http://asprise.com/product/ocr/index.php?lang=java Brobot will be constructed using a Vex Robotics System provided by GWU

3. Algorithmic Challenges & What’s Next Algorithmic Challenges Path Finding Scan ends of books Interpret images of ends of books into strings Create unique book ID from image of book’s end Determine correct position of book based on ID This Month’s Plan a) Familiarize myself with the toolkits b) Investigate problems facing similar projects c) Pseudocode solutions to algorithmic challenges