CAMPUS MITHRA: Design and implementation of voice based attender robot
Abstract A robot is a machine which is programmed by a computer and the movements and functions of which are controlled by an external or an embedded control. It has dynamic uses in all domains of life. A robot in a university setting can be used as an attender for passing circulars around instead of multiple attenders doing the task manually which is a cost and time consuming process. Parents often find it difficult to navigate through the unfamiliar university. In this paper, we have focused on a voice based attender robot with line following capabilities along with speech recognition that can be used at universities for a variety of purposes like passing around the circulars, interacting with parents and helping them navigate through the university through Spoken Natural Language. The main objectives of the proposed work is to reduce the burden of passing circulars, calling a student/faculty on the attender by designing a robot that is also competent enough to connect with human through spoken natural language such as English or Kannada, so that it interacts with parents who are new to the institution and do not know whom to approach. The main aim of this work is to introduce a robot that it is able to interact with human through the Spoken Natural Language. Here, the focus is on two languages; English and Kannada. This system uses a voice recognition module to recognize human voice and a voice playback module is used to reply back in either English or Kannada according to the user’s command. It can work in two modes, the voice recognition mode to answer to user queries or in line following mode to pass circulars, call student/faculty. In this way, the voice based attender robot finds its applications in the university setting. But it is not limited to only universities. It can also be further implemented in places like railway stations, bus stations, big factories and other similar surroundings.