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Master Team Project - Robot Driven Library Maintenance
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| Title | Master Team Project - Robot Driven Library Maintenance |
| Author |
Al Assad, Marouane
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| Contributors |
Chair of Software Engineering, University of Mannheim
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| License |
CC Attribution 3.0 Germany: You are free to use, adapt and copy, distribute and transmit the work or content in adapted or unchanged form for any legal purpose as long as the work is attributed to the author in the manner specified by the author or licensor. |
| DOI | 10.5446/21360 |
| Publisher | Library of the University of Mannheim |
| Release Date | 2016 |
| Language | Silent film |
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| Subject Area | Engineering |
| Abstract | Many librarian tasks require physical presence in the library and are time-consuming and tedious. The SWT Master Team Project "Robot Driven Library Maintenance" was initiated to automate some of these obligations, in order to make more time for more important, value-adding activities. This report demonstrates in detail the four project phases pursued with the goal develop a fully integrated system for the Mannheim University Library which is able to autonomously support the librarians in inventorying books, searching for books, and checking their status. The system comprises a Turtlebot robot which autonomously goes around the desired book shelves, takes pictures of one shelf-level and transfers them to a server. There, using OpenCV and Tesseract, the stickers on the individual books are recognised and the sticker texts extracted. A report engine matches the recognised books with the target condition of the library and saves its report to a database. The reports are made available through a web frontend both via download and as a HTML5 page. Despite the fact that no fully functional system could be built, an impressive proof of concept under realistic conditions could be achieved, and can be further improved to a full-scale system. |
| Keywords |
Bibliothek Inventur Bildverarbeitung Automatische Texterkennung (OCR) Navigation im Raum Autonomer Roboter Software-Entwicklung |
