QR Code based Path Planning for Warehouse Management Robot

Abstract

Path planning is an essential part of a mobile robot controller. Autonomous path planning in a large space like warehouse is a challenging task. This work focuses on developing an efficient path planning algorithm for warehouse management robot using QR Code. Nowadays mobile robots play an important role in warehouse automation task such as navigating to a particular location, picking up the desired object and using it back to packing section. The proposed system uses QR Code sticker in the floor placed at strategic locations as via points to reach the desired destination and to pick the desired object. The proposed path planning algorithm is implemented and test in 3D Robotics simulator WEBOTS. The simulated results proves that the QR Code based path planning for the large environments is efficient and less computationally complex.