Robotic Valet Parking System

Abstract

Due to influx of vehicles on the road, citizens inevitably combat traffic congestion on a daily basis. This is underlined by the lack of parking infrastructure and shoot up of vehicle to human population ratio. The Robotic Valet Parking System uses the robotic valets, which are the vehicle carriers and parks the vehicles compactly in a given space of the parking area once the driver loads his vehicle at the loading bay. Robotic Valet Automated Parking System (APS) provides solution for the parking problems without the need for special construction for automation. The conventional concrete garages can be transformed into an automated parking system with the use of robotic valets. Since the robotic valet APS requires concrete flooring, which provides the fire separation, builders consider it approvable. The number and the position of the occupied vehicles can be determined without the deployment of the sensors in each of the parking slots. The vacancy of the parking garage is displayed on the LCD screen which is of benefit to the costumer. The central processing unit wirelessly controls the locomotion of robotic valets and the arrangement of vehicles in the parking area. We shall prove the space efficiency, accuracy, operational speed, safety and cost effectiveness of the proposed parking system. A functional prototype of a robotic valet is built which parks the vehicle loaded. The Unified Technology Learning Platform (UTLP) Kit, which has TI (Texas Instruments) ARM CORTEX A-8 microprocessor unit embedded in the TI OMAP 3530 applications processor, is the control unit and this monitors the movement of the robotic valet wirelessly. On producing the parking slip at the exit the robotic valet automatically retrieves the vehicle to the costumer.