Design and Implementation of the Self-Driving Based Last Mile Delivery System Using SLAM and OCR 


Vol. 47,  No. 11, pp. 1884-1894, Nov.  2022
10.7840/kics.2022.47.11.1884


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Recently, as the size of the delivery service market increases, the pace of the logistics automation technology is accelerating. Among others, the last step in a product's journey to customer doorstep called Last Mile Delivery has gained much attention, and thus, research and development is actively underway to enhance the efficiency of last mile delivery. This paper implements the mobile robot-based last mile delivery automation system using SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) and deep learning. The proposed system extracts the text that contains the receiver’s address and delivery destination from the invoice using deep learning vision based OCR (Optical Character Recognition), and then delivers a package to the receiver’s front door by self driving using SLAM. Additionally, we have developed an Android application to improve the courier’s usability. By experiment we have verified that the automated robot can accurately deliver a package to the receiver’s front door while coping with obstacles dynamically during self driving. In other words, the proposed system can effectively automate last mile delivery that depends on manpower.

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[IEEE Style]

G. Park, S. Cho, J. Shin, J. Park, H. Yang, T. Kim, "Design and Implementation of the Self-Driving Based Last Mile Delivery System Using SLAM and OCR," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 47, no. 11, pp. 1884-1894, 2022. DOI: 10.7840/kics.2022.47.11.1884.

[ACM Style]

Geon-hyeong Park, Seong-yun Cho, Jae-seong Shin, Jong-gun Park, Hyun-kyu Yang, and Taewoon Kim. 2022. Design and Implementation of the Self-Driving Based Last Mile Delivery System Using SLAM and OCR. The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, 47, 11, (2022), 1884-1894. DOI: 10.7840/kics.2022.47.11.1884.

[KICS Style]

Geon-hyeong Park, Seong-yun Cho, Jae-seong Shin, Jong-gun Park, Hyun-kyu Yang, Taewoon Kim, "Design and Implementation of the Self-Driving Based Last Mile Delivery System Using SLAM and OCR," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 47, no. 11, pp. 1884-1894, 11. 2022. (https://doi.org/10.7840/kics.2022.47.11.1884)