4G Enabled PhoneBot with Cloud based SLAM

Abstract

It is expected that robots will be performing variety of tasks in near future which will help easing the burdens from humans. Robots applications are limitless, map generation and locations are no exception to it. In this paper, we have developed a PhoneBot which uses off-the-shelf mobile phone and LidarBot. LidarBot is equipped with internet via available cellular network. PhoneBot has the potential to sense the environment and based on the sensing creates a map for localization. Not only this, PhoneBot can also handle the dynamic environments and updated the maps in the cloud after sometime. Our results show that the PhoneBot can successfully creates a map of an unknown indoor location and can respond to the dynamically changing nature of the maps. Finally, it is important to mention here that the proposed PhoneBot has the least dimensions when compared with other SLAM robots.