Development of a Tower-type Cooking Robot

Abstract

Cooking robots still have problems, such as poor the cooking performance, unsatisfactory methods for executing recipe instructions, and the large scale of the system. The objective of this study is to develop a cooking robot that can improve cooking performance while reducing the scale of the system. In this paper, we propose a tower-type cooking robot that functions as a single, small-scale cooking robot system by layering individual cooking mechanisms as units and stacking them together. In addition, we apply our recipe analysis algorithm to the proposed tower-type cooking robot to solve the problem of executing recipe instructions. To achieve our objective, we have developed a prototype of a tower-type cooking robot and an experiment. Since the improvement in cooking performance is dependent on each unit, we will have to improve their controls and mechanisms in the future.