Restaurant Serving System

Abstract

The trend of using robots as waiters in restaurants is increasing because of the shortage of manpower and high demand of salaries by the waiters, which has become problematic for the owners of restaurants. The technology is replacing manual work force more efficiently. The aim of the project is to develop a Restaurant Serving System (RSS) framework to automate the delivery of food for local restaurants with commercial applications. Traditionally the serving systems in China, India, Sri Lanka and other countries uses robots to deliver food by simple line following techniques and Human waiters/managers to take order form customers. However, this project improves the performance of RSS by dividing into two parts. First, client-server communication (each table provided by android tablet for the customers to place their order and the order details send to kitchen and manager via server). Second, Table number is assigned to serving robot via android application and the robot follow the user’s pre-defined path for different tables and the serving robot have the capability to detect the obstacle in the path. Restaurant Serving System is intended with basic behaviour of obstacle detection and target seeking in dynamic environments using ultrasonic sensors for the efficient delivery of food and to reach the destination by following user’s pre-defined path by implementing the speed-time algorithm with the help of speed sensors. RSS will have graphical user interface system which allows the user to specify food tastes that are of their interest, approximated budget for each person and approximated delivery time. And order details of customer will transfer to kitchen (chef) for the preparation of food. Currently there is no such integrated RSS is available in Pakistan.