Design and Analysis of 3-DOF Spatial Serial Manipulator for Warehouse Applications

Abstract

This paper presents a robotic solution for the labor-intensive and time-consuming task of order picking operation carried out in the warehouse of e-commerce industries. The novel design of manipulator which will be mounted on a mobile robotic platform is proposed. A 3-DOF spatial serial manipulator is designed for the said task. Furthermore, the structural analysis and optimization of all the links of the designed manipulator are done by using finite element analysis. Finally, the payload carrying capacity of the proposed manipulator is determined.