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Campus Courier: An Autonomous Delivery Robot On-Campus

Rihan, Yazen / Zein, Ismail / Alaraj, Mustafa / Soudan, Bassel

The demand for efficient and sustainable logistic solutions on university campuses has been constantly increasing. Conventional delivery schemes might result in delayed deliveries and work inefficiencies. Automating deliveries in working environments tackles these issues. We propose Campus Courier, an autonomous delivery robot that is used within a university campus or any spacious facility. The robot will navigate autonomously across the campus avoiding static and dynamic obstacles. campus courier utilizes a Lidar for object detection. This approach provides high precision mapping and navigation around different complex campus terrains. The system integrates robot operating system (ROS), Navigation2 (Nav2), along with different technologies and algorithms, to deliver items autonomously. Integration testing, black/white box testings, simulations, and real-world scenarios will be used to evaluate our system against many use cases and circumstances. Campus Courier aims to increase work productivity, better resources-utilization, and decreasing the carbon footprint during campus logistics. The system will also contribute to the process of automating services and embedding technological solution to the campuses. In the following sections, this paper will cover the technical background of the robot's components. Also, detailed explanations of Campus Courier's design, encompassing its hardware and software components, will be presented. Finally, the initial findings and performance results of Campus Courier in real-world scenarios will be discussed.