Warehouse Automation Using Drones

Abstract: Indoor Warehouse automation is one area which is being talked about among the top e-commerce giants mainly in order to meet the on-time delivery requirement. Amazon�s KIVA [1] robot may sound promising at first but it fails, primarily due to its limitation of being restricted to ground motion. The system presented in this paper is targeted to solve this problem by using drones to do the task. The motivation behind this is to increase the reach of the inventory and also automate the process of inventory in a more dynamic way.

Keywords: SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), PTAM (parallel tracking and monitoring), Autonomous Navigation, Object tracking and Object Detection.