Path Planning of Mobile Robots Based on QR Code

Abstract

The place and importance of mobile robots in today's industry is increasing day by day. The use of mobile robots for industrial purposes such as sorting, moving and placing is no longer a preference but a necessity. With methods such as line, magnetic field, infrared ray or image tracking, positioning of mobile robots and path planning are possible. The use of these methods depends on the application fields. The industry started with mobile line following robot’s application at the beginning, gradually they have been developing day by day, and pursuits for different methods. If the topic examined under the heading of Industry 4.0, it is necessary to equip mobile robots with innovative technologies. The need for mobile robots that can provide fast, effective and practical solutions is being investigated by academics and commercial product developers.In this study, it is aimed to carry out a QR code based study on path planning of industrial mobile robots with distributed mobility. For this purpose, coordinates of the mobile robot work area are represented by QR labels and prepared in the form of a matrix. This way, developed path planning algorithm can be evaluated as a derivative of existing algorithms.