Domestic robots with multi-function and safe internet connectivity

Abstract

This paper presents a kind of domestic robot with multi-function such as cleaning, surveillance. The domestic robot is mainly composed of four functional modules, namely motion and cleaning module, vision module, sensory module, and GSM module. Motion and cleaning module is a mobile platform with cleaning tools. The main part of the vision module is an IP camera, which is used for telepresence. The sensory module is made up of some sensors apperceiving the surrounding and detecting anomalies. The GSM module is just like a mobile phone, which could send messages to an appointed telephone. The security of Internet connecting in our proposed design is described detailedly. Through the Internet or mobile phones, we could accomplish telepresence and take remote control of the domestic robot. The experimental results show the implement of cleaning, surveillance and remote control.