Robot Control Design Using Android Smartphone

Abstract

An open-source platform Android has been widely used in smart phones. Android has complete software package consisting of an operating system, middleware layer and core applications. Android application, Smart phones are becoming each time more powerful and equipped with several accessories that are useful for Robots. The purpose of our project is to provide powerful computational android platforms with simpler robot’s hardware architecture. This project describes how to control a robot using mobile through Bluetooth communication, some features about Bluetooth technology, components of the mobile and robot. We present a review of robots controlled by mobile phone via moving the robot upward, backward, left and right side by the android application such as Arduino, Bluetooth. Bluetooth has changed how people use digital device at home or office, and has transferred traditional wired digital devices into wireless devices. A host Bluetooth device is capable of communicating with up to seven Bluetooth modules at same time through one link. We are developing the remote buttons in the android app by which we can control the robot motion with them. And in which we use Bluetooth communication to interface controller and android. Controller can be interfaced to the Bluetooth module though UART protocol. According to commands received from android the robot motion can be controlled. The consistent output of a robotic system along with quality and repeatability are unmatched. Pick and Place robots can be reprogrammable and tooling can be interchanged to provide for multiple applications. We derived simple solutions to provide a framework for building robots with very low cost but with high computation and sensing capabilities provided by the smart phone that is used as a control device.