Automatic Dispenser for Kitchen Robots

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Pedro Miguel Ortiz da
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/133297
• topic: Kitchen Robot; Automatic Dispenser; Controllers; Domínio/Área Científica::Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática

In the last years we have seen technology and human-machine-interaction exponentially evolve and having great developments. With these developments and the integration of technology in every day life, a natural change in quotidian life is expected, and a place where we can see these changes is in the kitchen. One of technology’s objectives is to ease a task or do it completely on its own, with the rising pace at which the society lives it became a necessity to reduce the wasted time in every way we can. This dissertation objective was to reduce the wasted time, by being integrated in the kitchen it will reduce the time the user needs to be present and therefore use the free time as he wishes. There are already some implemented solutions, however, those solutions still have some problems that end up limiting the possibility of user absence, the ones that permit total absence don’t permit any user input as to change any recipe information during its execution. As a solution for this, an automatic dispenser was developed as the objective of this dissertation, the goal of this dispenser is to deliver the required ingredients for a given recipe, this recipe will be given by the main machine where this dispenser is to connect and be a module of. The development of this work started with looking into some existing solutions and identify their major issues, and with those in mind define software and hardware architectures, to better answer the problems at hand and get to an improved solution which the user can rely on.