Differently-abled person track and follow robot for luggage transport

Abstract

The world is continuously emerging in the use of robots for reducing the risks faced by humans. The robot technology has
been prominent in many industrial applications. It has also found its purpose in the transportation fields where luggage
transport is a major task to be handled in care. Humans need extreme care in transporting their luggage when it comes to
places with high traffic or crowd. They need to safeguard their luggage and ensure the luggage stays with them throughout
their travel .The luggage should be safe and also needs to be in the entire course of journey along with the human.
Differently-abled persons find it difficult to carry their luggage with them. Hence there arrives a need to design a robot
which can simultaneously track and follow the human by pulling his luggage and provide user convenience in transporting
their luggage efficiently. The robot which tracks and follows should be reliable and user friendly. The main objective of
this paper is to make Turtlebot3 to track and follow human as well as pull the luggage simultaneously .The LIDAR sensor
helps the robot to track the human and ROS platform paves the way for communication among the components and make
the robot to track and follow the human efficiently. An alarm is ringed if the human tracking fails in any condition.