Robot Control 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, middle ware 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. For project we developed two android applications, in that first application sends instruction to the other application which is placed in another smart phone on robot. We are developing the remote buttons in the second android app by which we can control the robot motion, direction with them and also use mobiles basic features like camera, video. We use Bluetooth communication to interface controller and android. 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.