Indoor Water-Dispensing Robot with Two-Stage Localization

With improvement in the quality of people´s life and the change of their lifestyle, the demand for intelligent water dispensers is increased. This study, therefore, proposes to de-sign a service robot that can not only move autonomously but also serve people intelligently. In this paper, a solution to de-sign an intelligent water-dispensing service robot is proposed. A new integrated system architecture is introduced, and a two-stage localization, a novel method of indoor robot localization, is described to solve the localization problem of the robot. Ow-ing to the detailed description of the implementation, it is clearly indicated that the proposed solution is reasonable and feasible. Besides, comparisons of various indoor localization methods and indoor robot applications demonstrate that the water-dispensing service robot has advantages over the existing designs and application.