Smart Robotic Assistant

Abstract

Smart robotic assistants help human beings in reducing the manual efforts in day-to-day tasks and the risk to precious human lives in hazardous situations. In this paper, we develop a smart robotic assistant that operates on human voice commands, given remotely by using an Android platform based smart IoT device. The real-time signal processing of the voice commands is carried out using a cloud server. The speech command signal converted to text form is then communicated to the robotic assistant over a Bluetooth network. The robotic assistant is developed on an Arduino micro-controller based platform. The robotic assistant is capable of performing different movements such as turns and start/stop operations, and picking up an object from one location and placing it at another location. The effectiveness of the voice commands given over the network is measured through several experiments. Performance evaluation results are encouraging. Potential applications of this smart robotic assistant in homes, hospitals and industries are discussed.