Controlling Self-Directed Vehicle via Webpage using Raspberry Pi Lighttpd Webserver

Wajeeh Baloch,Bhawani Shanker,Sumbul Ghulamani

doi:10.33317/ssurj.v6i1.43

Wajeeh Baloch, Bhawani Shanker + Show 1 more

Open Access

https://doi.org/10.33317/ssurj.v6i1.43

Copy DOI

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) and Tele-Robotics aremost advanced technologies that provide a vision where anyobject in this world can be connected to anything else. Thesetechnologies enable us to build communication among variousentities such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) devices, homeappliances, medical equipment, RFIDs etc. An intelligent Self-Directed Vehicle (SDV) incorporated with features of Internet ofThings (IoT) is presented in this work. In order to manuallycontrol the SDV, a web page (embedded with google maps) isdeveloped and uploaded on Lighttpd server on Raspberry Pi.Lighttpd server can act like a normal apache server. User cannavigate SDV manually using maneuvering control buttons. Theonboard camera provides visual awareness. This technology canbe utilized and implemented in a number of areas such asmilitary, where SDV can undertake missions like dronesurveillance, border patrol etc. Furthermore, our work highlightsthe use of webservers for interconnecting devices and describesthe use of internet to control SDV from a remote end withRaspberry Pi Lighttpd Web Server.

Highlights

Rapid enhancement in technology has been constantly added to the human life for last few decades
We present an efficient approach of controlling a selfdirected vehicle (SDV) via web page that is uploaded on a web server which is set up in a single board computer, this approach can be called server independent approach
Live streaming of SDV’s surrounding on the webpage The onboard camera on SDV provides the visual feedback, in order to achieve the live streaming which is the most integral and prior part of this project as shown in the figure below we need to create a connection between camera and webpage [6, 9]

Summary

Introduction

Rapid enhancement in technology has been constantly added to the human life for last few decades. Internet of Things (IoT) and Tele Robotics are two of those latest enhancements in technology. With such technologies it’s possible to control the motion of any device from remote end even in the space like satellites. Nowadays world is transforming towards the "Smart Era", homes are becoming smartphones, cars are becoming smart cars, phones are becoming smart homes Which proves that these devices include the features of decision making and user can monitor or control these devices from any remote end. It becomes even easier to control and monitor the devices from anywhere While building such communication between two ends, several security issues and threats arise such as hacking, spamming etc.

Objectives

Results

Conclusion