Raspberry Pi and IoT based Family Robot

As prices rising, more and more people work harder and go on a business trip, travelling folk to their career. People ignore the family security, some of them even leaving children and old people at home alone. According to recent data, the urban crime rate is on the high status in our country, such

Project Title

Raspberry Pi and IoT based Family Robot

Project Area of Specialization

Robotics

Project Summary

As prices rising, more and more people work harder and go on a business trip, travelling folk to their career. People ignore the family security, some of them even leaving children and old people at home alone. According to recent data, the urban crime rate is on the high status in our country, such as burglary, child trafficking cases. Combining family security and intelligence, we design a real-time video surveillance and convenient accurate mobile family robot is also very important, that has aroused widespread attention at home and abroad. Robots collect and monitor real-time environmental data, and protect the security at the same time, in order to control indoor environment by family members at any time, so that people. In their family can control switch air conditioning, air humidifier and so on more conveniently. Most of the family robots at home and abroad use Bluetooth and infrared remote to control them; these robots are usually poor in interactivity embedded systems, such as the limited control distance. In order to improve the human-computer interaction between the users and the robots, this system uses the android mobile phone for remote interactive control. The robots embedded system based on Raspberry Pi have more obvious advantages than the traditional robots in system cost, development difficulty, power consumption of equipment and safety coefficient. Various smart home systems have been developed where the control is through internet, Android application and short message services (SMS) base. Wi-Fi competence is good and most of current technology gadgets have built-in adaptor that will reduce the system’s cost. However, the system limits the control to within Wi-Fi range of the environment. The proposed family robot system captures information and sends to a server where we can see this information remotely. Raspberry pi operates and controls sensors and video cameras for remote data viewing and surveillance, streams live video and stores data for future analysis. Also another advantage is that it offers privacy on both sides since it is being viewed by only one person .Other advantage is that it is a simple circuit and the system uses raspbian operating system. The raspberry pi is a very powerful, minicomputer with the dimensions of credit card which was designed with the hope for learners to be creative. This computer uses ARM (advanced RISC machine) processor, the processor at the heart of raspberry pi. All the Storage is provided from a SD card. The Raspberry Pi system functions like a computer with small setup. It contains GPIO, USB ports, Wi-Fi and Ethernet. Using these ports we can control the appliances with the sensors as well as interface the camera for surveillance. Raspberry Pi can be used for multiple purposes based on our requirement.

Project Objectives

To provide a Robot that ensures the security of the family as well as to provide home automation (control many appliances like fan lights).

Project Implementation Method

This system adopts double microprocessor architecture, and its processor is divided into two parts: one use Arduino to drive the peripherals, such as temperature and humidity sensor, smoke sensor, light sensor, dc motor, etc., to insure that robots can work normally, and sent the data to the Raspberry Pi. The other it used Raspberry Pi as core processor, complete final processing of data, the data storage, the video signal compression, real-time video transmission and data server, after that the data will be present on the network eventually. As shown in figure. Arduino is a high portability, convenient and quick embedded development platform of open source electronics, with AVR single chip microcomputer as the kernel. It only supports Arduino IDE and it’s a new type of microcontroller which is easy to get started programming language tool for developing. The emergence of the Arduino marks the coming of the era of electronic circuit module and electronic DIY.As it's "sister", Raspberry Pi has shown a similar appearance. Something different is that Raspberry Pi needs to carry on operating system which can be any version of Linux, Windows 10, and it may also be the derivatives of Linux - Android. Raspberry Pi is more like a fully functional "computer". And Arduino built-in A/D, D/A conversion makes it have realtime analog to digital circuit, input and output ability, making it irreplaceable, and making people relax from PMW and AD chip.

Benefits of the Project

This system can be described as very useful to everyone and especially for disabled and elderly people. This system also had been developed with low cost in mind and user friendly interface to allow more users will able to implement the system in their home. This system added more features such as gas sensor, temperature sensor and other function like push notification in mobile apps to alert user with changing of switching state and sensor reading. Therefore, more users are able to use the system and be more beneficial to society.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

Based on Raspberry Pi family robot system, we adopt double micro control architecture of embedded design which breaks through the traditional Internet of things.

Robots collect and monitor real-time environmental data, and protect the security at the same time, in order to control indoor environment by family members at any time, so that people. In their family can control switch air conditioning, air humidifier and so on more conveniently. Most of the family robots at home and abroad use Bluetooth and infrared remote to control them; these robots are usually poor in interactivity embedded systems, such as the limited control distance.

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Core Industry

Health

Other Industries

IT

Core Technology

Internet of Things (IoT)

Other Technologies

Augmented & Virtual Reality

Sustainable Development Goals

Good Health and Well-Being for People

Required Resources

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