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This paper presents an Android-based wireless remote-control system for a wheeled mobile robot. A micro Wi-Fi controller board running OpenWrt Operating System was introduced to control the video streaming and communication between mobile robot and android device remotely through Socket Connections. A network camera is mounted on the Wi-Fi board through an USB interface to acquire images, which are displayed on the control device for the remote operator’s operation. The RS232 serial port linking the Wi-Fi board to the robot and long run batteries are used to give them power supply without any cable connected. The designed Wi-Fi Robot can be remotely operated from anywhere inside the scope of wireless coverage as long as there is an android device that running the control system.
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The authors are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments which have certainly improved this paper.
This research was supported by National 863 Program (No. 2011AA01A205), National 973 Program (No. 2011CB302702), P. R. China.
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Song, C. (2014). Android-Based Remote-Control with Real-Time Video Surveillance for Wi-Fi Robot. In: Yuan, Y., Wu, X., Lu, Y. (eds) Trustworthy Computing and Services. ISCTCS 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 426. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43908-1_47
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