Authors: Ankita Jaykumar Rukade, Saloni Sanjay Chougule, Snehal Bahubali Alase, P.R.Chougule
Abstract: Surveillance is that the process of monitoring a situation, a locality or someone. This generally occurs in a very military scenario where surveillance of borderlines and enemy territory is crucial to a country’s safety. Human surveillance is achieved by deploying personnel near sensitive areas so as to constantly monitor for changes. But humans do have their limitations, and deployment in inaccessible places isn't always possible. Thus, in recent times, surveillance technology has become a region of greater search interest. However, building a little robot for testing and research purposes proves to be extremely expensive. Primarily because a security robot would require certain components like a GPS module (Global Positioning System), High resolution cameras, radios for satellite connectivity, etc. Each of those components is quite expensive and piecing them together for the aim of a robot may be a very costly and time consuming affair.
We propose a cheap four wheeled surveillance robot using an Arduino UNO microcontroller and a sensible phone running the Android package. Surveillance robots typically carries with it a video camera, Audio input output, 360 degree view, accesses from anywhere. Android smart phones include excellent hardware satisfying the above needs. This may be leveraged and wont to advantage through APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) provided for the Android software system. Moreover, the value for building said robot employing a smart phone is mitigated to an excellent extent. The robot are often controlled remotely from a PC using the web and a microcontroller smart phone interface residing on the robot.
To capture and archive the important time video from the robot, the inbuilt camera input of the phone is used. The robot is often controlled supported visual feedback from the identical smart phone. Four motors help achieve a zero turning radius. The camera is attached to a stepper motor which makes it feasible to capture the scene or object of interest. The captured video are often enhanced and made intelligible using further image processing on the remote PC thereby eliminating the requirement for extra DSP hardware on the robot. Thus, it's our aim to make a fully-featured surveillance robot using an easily available Android phone, which might be remotely controlled over the web.
Keywords: Arduino UNO, Android phone, Mobile application, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi
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