A Robotic Library System for an Off-Site Shelving Facility
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2002
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Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 4:3589-3594
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This paper describes a unique robotics project,
Comprehensive Access to Printed Materials (CAPM),
within the context of libraries. As libraries provide a
growing array of digital library services and resources,
they continue to acquire large quantities of printed
material. This combined pressure of providing electronic
and print-based resources and services has led to severe
space constraints for many libraries, especially academic
research libraries. Consequently, many libraries have
built or plan to build off-site shelving facilities to
accommodate printed materials. An autonomous mobile
robotic library system has been developed to retrieve
items from bookshelves and carry them to scanning
stations located in the off-site shelving facility. In
subsequent stages, remote users will be able to trigger
this process through a web interface in order to achieve
real-time browsing of printed materials. Enhanced
commercial robot systems are used in this project. The
developments of the robot design, control systems,
simulations, experiments and results are presented.
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Suthakorn, J., S. Lee, Y. Zhou, R. Thomas, G.S. Choudhury, and G.S. Chirikjian. A Robotic Library System for an Off-Site Shelving Facility. Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Volume 4. 3589-3594