Indoor surveillance robot controlled by a smart phone

As the smart phone becomes a remote processor for more functions in people daily lifes, the operators of the indoor survelience robots can be located anywhere if they have the smart phone. This paper presents the design of a mobile robotic system remotely controlled by a smart mobile phone via the Internet. A control client on the Android smart phone was the command center while the mobile robot was excuted to surveilence. The model predictive control method was applied on the side of the smart phone to generate an optimal sequence of the control commands. A network compensator was embeded on the robot to determine the current action of the robot. Experiments under different netwok conditions were carried out and analyzed for validation of the proposed system.