Designing and implementing a Wi-Fi enabled mobile robot

Author

Gopal, Lenin ; Loong, Andrew Wong Wei

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. & Sci., Curtin Univ. Sarawak Malaysia, Miri, Malaysia

Volume

2

fYear

2011

fDate

10-12 June 2011

Firstpage

69

Lastpage

75

Abstract

The demand for mobile reconnaissance robots has increased since the beginning of the 21st century war. The army mainly uses these robots for reconnaissance and gathering intelligence data without putting the personnel in danger. In this paper we present the design and implementation of Wi-Fi enabled mobile robot for distributed surveillance applications. The robot is built on a 4 wheel chassis, powered by a Linksys WRT54-GL residential router and an Atmel microcontroller. It is also equipped with an IP camera with added pan/tilt capabilities and on-board sensors which relays feedback information to the human operator. The software on the robot is programmed in C language and the Control Console is programmed in Java. In order to test the performance of the robot, the robot is tested under three scenarios, Indoor, Outdoor and Line of sight.

Keywords

C language; Java; cameras; control engineering computing; mobile robots; robot vision; surveillance; telerobotics; wireless LAN; Atmel microcontroller; C language; IP camera; Java; Linksys WRT54-GL residential router; Wi-Fi enabled mobile robot; control console; distributed surveillance application; feedback information; human operator; intelligence data gathering; mobile reconnaissance robot; Cameras; DC motors; Microcontrollers; Robot sensing systems; Service robots; Atmel Microcontroller; Wi-Fi enabled Robot; Wireless Communications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Automation Engineering (CSAE), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8727-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSAE.2011.5952425

Filename

5952425