• DocumentCode
    3586985
  • Title

    Design of operating software and electrical system of mobile robot for environmental monitoring

  • Author

    Tanaka, Katsuaki ; Ishii, Hiroyuki ; Kinoshita, Shinichi ; Shi, Qing ; Sugita, Hikaru ; Okabayashi, Satoshi ; Sugahara, Yusuke ; Takanishi, Atsuo

  • Author_Institution
    Grad. Sch. of Adv. Sci. & Eng., Waseda Univ., Tokyo, Japan
  • fYear
    2014
  • Firstpage
    1763
  • Lastpage
    1768
  • Abstract
    Environmental monitoring robot is a new method for approaching environmental monitoring. The main issue with the development of this is to develop accessible its system. Several studies have been conducted on the autonomous monitoring system and they performed well, however, almost they are costly and complex therefore be not considered well to be accessible design. The purpose of our work was to develop an accessible system and implement to root for other field´s researchers. The objectives of the work were to design operating software and electrical system that could be easily used to operate the robot and monitor the environment as a monitoring system. The middle sections of the article introduce and describe specific information about these objectives. We also explain the results of its experimental implementations to an autonomous environmental monitoring robot named Waseda Animal Monitoring robot (WAMOT). An operating software and electrical system were successfully designed by using the existing infrastructure and product, especially, smartphone and public cloud server were used for making the robot easy to use. The developed method is significant, not only because it fills a gap in the mobile robot, but also because it makes possible to adapt to the conventional monitoring method such as monitoring post. Therefore, achieves the core concept of accessibility.
  • Keywords
    cloud computing; environmental monitoring (geophysics); environmental science computing; mobile robots; robot programming; smart phones; WAMOT; Waseda animal monitoring robot; autonomous environmental monitoring robot; autonomous monitoring system; electrical system; mobile robot; operating software design; public cloud server; smartphone; Environmental monitoring; Legged locomotion; Robot sensing systems; Servers; Software;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ROBIO.2014.7090590
  • Filename
    7090590