Intelligent Robot Systems Based on PDA for Home Automation Systems in Ubiquitous

Abstract

Koreans occasionally introduce their country with phrases like, ‘The best internet penetration in the world’, or ‘internet power’. A huge infra-structure for the internet has been built in recent years. The internet is becoming a general tool for anyone to exploit anytime and anywhere. Additionally, concern about the silver industry, which is related to the life of elderly people, has increased continuously by extending the average life span. In this respect, application of robots also has increased concern about advantages of autonomous robots such as convenience of robots or help from autonomous robots. This increase in concern has caused companies to launch products containing built-in intelligent environments and many research institutes have increased studies on home automation projects. In this book chapter, we address autonomous systems by designing fusion systems including intelligent mobility and home automation. We created home oriented robots which can be used in a real home environment and developed user friendly external design of robots to enhance user convenience. We feel we have solved some difficulties of the real home environment by fusing PDA based systems and home servers. Wireless Lan attached PDAs can serve as small size and stable wireless environments. By sending states of robots using a home server, our system has the unique feature of remote control combined with 3D home monitoring. We have implemented a system that can adapt a mobile robot to home automation systems and confirm our proposal with experiments using a PBMoRo (PDA Based Mobile Robot).