Smart Restaurant Management System

This project is intended to improve restaurants condition for better customer experience. The concept is simple to implement and is very useful for every kind of place,  it is a small restaurant or a big hotel. The system provides managed food delivery right to the table (without any confusion)

Project Title

Smart Restaurant Management System

Project Area of Specialization

Robotics

Project Summary

This project is intended to improve restaurants condition for better customer experience. The concept is simple to implement and is very useful for every kind of place,  it is a small restaurant or a big hotel. The system provides managed food delivery right to the table (without any confusion) and smart payment options for saving time. The system will be having a touch-screen device on each table showing a food menu provided by the restaurant. This would eliminate the physical pamphlets/menu books being used. Once the user has confirmed his meal, the order will be forwarded to the kitchen and a timer would start. It’d show the time remaining before the order is prepared and delivered to the table. This would keep the customer aware that how much time is remaining so there won’t be any need of a person from whom he has to ask. The orders will be displayed to the chefs in the kitchen on the screen. As everything happens automatically, the chefs don’t need to write anything down on a paper or need someone to do that for them. Everything related to the order would be displayed to them on the screen.  Once the food is prepared, one of the chefs would place it on the food serving robot. The robot will go to the table yes where the customer would be able to pick up his food.This project is intended to improve restaurants condition for better customer experience. The concept is simple to implement and is very useful for every kind of place,  it is a small restaurant or a big hotel. The system provides managed food delivery right to the table (without any confusion) and smart payment options for saving time. The system will be having a touch-screen device on each table showing a food menu provided by the restaurant. This would eliminate the physical pamphlets/menu books being used. Once the user has confirmed his meal, the order will be forwarded to the kitchen and a timer would start. It’d show the time remaining before the order is prepared and delivered to the table. This would keep the customer aware that how much time is remaining so there won’t be any need of a person from whom he has to ask. The orders will be displayed to the chefs in the kitchen on the screen. As everything happens automatically, the chefs don’t need to write anything down on a paper or need someone to do that for them. Everything related to the order would be displayed to them on the screen.  Once the food is prepared, one of the chefs would place it on the food serving robot. The robot will go to the table yes where the customer would be able to pick up his food.

Project Objectives

• Designing the robot's structure for serving food to customers.
• Handling obstacles using ultrasonic sensors.
• Finding the position of the robot with respect to the table by measuring the distance.
• Finding the weight of food on the tray using the load cell.
• Designing an interface for controlling the robot.
• Development of android application.

Project Implementation Method

We converted our implementation into steps. With these steps, we were able to clearly implement our idea in reality.
Firstly we designed a robot for completing all of our required specifications. After designing we decided to go with 5mm acrylic and later we laser cut the design and then joining all parts together with tires and DC gear motors we were finally able to design our robot hardware.
Then we finalized our sensors and other components after research.
First, we completed obstacle avoidance. Later we move to make a robot to cover some programmed designed path with obstacle detection activation. So later we called those points table 1, table 2 and table 3.
After all of this, we moved to RFID card reader and microcontroller integration where we saved some Rfid cards number in program and run detection check.

The Next Step was to integrate load cells with all of the other hardware components. Which made us unable to figure out the weight of plate loaded food which is going to be delivered to either 1,2,3 table.
After all of this, we designed some beacons for the detection of the robot's indoor location which we later integrated with hardware. By using a camera with these beacons, we were finally able to achieve all of our remaining objectives.

Benefits of the Project

Direct Beneficiaries:

This project will provide the FYP students hands of experience on software and making electrical connections, working with ultrasonic sensors, DC motors, motor drivers, etc. learning the hardware interfacing with Microcontroller.

Some other beneficiaries are the following:

• Ease of serving food to customers.
• Fast order placing using android application.
• Less labor power required to open a new restaurant.

Indirect beneficiaries:

• Future work can be done to enhance the functionally of the machine.
• The prototype can be used for research purposes.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

Converting the project idea/plan into action is project implementation. We converted our implementation into steps. With these steps, we were able to clearly implement our idea in reality.
firstly we designed a robot for completing all of our required specifications. For designing part we used software named Corel Draw. After designing we decided to go with 5mm acrylic and later we laser cut the design and then joining all parts together with tires and DC gear motors we were finally able to design our robot hardware.
Then we finalized our sensors and other components after research which include motor drivers, RFID card reader, Ultrasonic sensors, Load cell, and some Bluetooth low energy modules and Esp8266 modules.
Then we decided to go with the master-slave concept where microcontroller (Arduino Mega) will be slave and Raspberry pi 3 model B+ will be master.
First, we completed obstacle avoidance a detailed objective with the help of Ultrasonic sensors and Arduino microcontroller where all motors and motor drivers are controlled on the basis of obstacle detection and later we move to make a robot to cover some programmed designed path with obstacle detection activation. So later we called those points table 1, table 2 and table 3.
After all of this, we moved to RFID card reader and microcontroller integration where we saved some Rfid cards number in program and run detection check.

The Next Step was to integrate load cells with all of the other hardware components. Which made us unable to figure out the weight of plate loaded food which is going to be delivered to either 1,2,3 table.
After all of this, we used a rotary encoder for measuring the robot's distance and check on a raspberry pi which later integrated with hardware. With pi cam and these beacons, we were finally able to achieve all of our remaining objectives.

Final Deliverable of the Project

Hardware System

Core Industry

Food

Other Industries

Medical

Core Technology

Robotics

Other Technologies

Others

Sustainable Development Goals

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Required Resources

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