Zakriya Paracha

Hardware, Software & Beyond

Currently: Software Engineer @Motive

Phone: +92 304 5113736

Email: zakriyaparacha@gmail.com

Dob: March 4th, 2002

Education: Bachelor's in Computer Engineering (NUST)

Selected Projects

Final Year Project

Optimizing Warehouse Item Transportation using Multi-Hop Robotic Networks

The adoption of robotic systems in industrial environments like warehouses is often hampered by their slow operational speeds, high costs, and the need for substantial infrastructure for implementation. Moreover, the complexity of individual robots, necessitated by the requirement for advanced sensors and actuators to avoid collisions, further escalates these challenges. This study introduces a distributed approach for route calculation, path finding and the coordination and collaboration between robots. A method is devise, to segment a warehouse into regions of varying sizes determined by the workload in an area. Every robot is restricted to one specific region for the duration of the delivery cycle, eliminating the possibility of collisions, consequently, lowering the costs associated with their sensors and actuators. Any deliveries that lie outside the reach of a particular

Robot are delivered through a pick and pass, multi-hop mechanism where a robot leaves the item at an exchange point between two segments. The entire mechanism is entirely autonomous and robots operate with minimal server involvement. Our methodology is demonstrated through the deployment of three line-following robots and supported by Python simulations, confirming our hypothesis and showcasing the potential for substantial improvements in robotic-assisted warehouse management and transportation.

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