The Smart Luggage System

Abstract

The airports and the railway platforms are one of the busiest areas where people need to tow their luggage, other than their own backpacks and other stuff which makes the task even more tedious. Our aim is to develop a robot-based luggage capable of manoeuvring through busy airports behind its owner while hauling his or her luggage. In this project, we consider the technique to be used to trail people and report on the realization of a mobile robot capable of following a person. In order to follow a human, a mobile robot needs to know the position of the person and must be able to determine its own path in order to follow his target. The smart luggage system will be a luggage that will follow the user throughout any flat surface without the need of the user to use force to drag it. No effort will be applied by the user in order to carry different load magnitudes. The smart luggage system have a Bluetooth module HC-05 which will receive control signals from the phone’s Bluetooth. The smart phone’s gyro sensor can be used for the forward movement of the luggage and to control the directions of the luggage. This project also aims to provide a portable charger that can be fixed into the luggage itself. This helps the users to charge their phones on their way of travel.