AmIE: An Ambient Intelligent Environment for Assisted Living

In the modern world of technology Internet-of-things (IoT) systems strives to provide an extensive interconnected and automated solutions for almost every life aspect. This paper proposes an IoT context-aware system to present an Ambient Intelligence (AmI) environment; such as an apartment, house, or a building; to assist blind, visually-impaired, and elderly people. The proposed system aims at providing an easy-to-utilize voice-controlled system to locate, navigate and assist users indoors. The main purpose of the system is to provide indoor positioning, assisted navigation, outside weather information, room temperature, people availability, phone calls and emergency evacuation when needed. The system enhances the user's awareness of the surrounding environment by feeding them with relevant information through a wearable device to assist them. In addition, the system is voice-controlled in both English and Arabic languages and the information are displayed as audio messages in both languages. The system design, implementation, and evaluation consider the constraints in common types of premises in Kuwait and in challenges, such as the training needed by the users. This paper presents cost-effective implementation options by the adoption of a Raspberry Pi microcomputer, Bluetooth Low Energy devices and an Android smart watch.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figures, 1 tabl

Teleoperated visual inspection and surveillance with unmanned ground and aerial vehicles,” Int

Abstract—This paper introduces our robotic system named UGAV (Unmanned Ground-Air Vehicle) consisting of two semi-autonomous robot platforms, an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) and an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). The paper focuses on three topics of the inspection with the combined UGV and UAV: (A) teleoperated control by means of cell or smart phones with a new concept of automatic configuration of the smart phone based on a RKI-XML description of the vehicles control capabilities, (B) the camera and vision system with the focus to real time feature extraction e.g. for the tracking of the UAV and (C) the architecture and hardware of the UAV

Overcoming barriers and increasing independence: service robots for elderly and disabled people

This paper discusses the potential for service robots to overcome barriers and increase independence of elderly and disabled people. It includes a brief overview of the existing uses of service robots by disabled and elderly people and advances in technology which will make new uses possible and provides suggestions for some of these new applications. The paper also considers the design and other conditions to be met for user acceptance. It also discusses the complementarity of assistive service robots and personal assistance and considers the types of applications and users for which service robots are and are not suitable

Mechatronics for the Design of Inspection Robotic Systems

Recent trends show how mobile robots are being widely used in security and inspection tasks. This chapter reports the requirements, characteristics, and development of mobile robotic systems for security and inspection tasks to demonstrate the feasibility of mechatronic solutions for inspection of sites of interest. The development of such systems can be exploited as a modular plug-in kit to be installed on a mobile system, with the aim to be used for inspection and monitoring, introducing high efficiency, quality, and repeatability in the addressed sector. The interoperability of sensors with wireless communication constitutes a smart sensor toolkit and a smart sensor network with powerful functions to be used efficiently for inspection purposes. A tele-operated robot will be taken as case of study; it is controlled by mobile phone and equipped with internal and external sensors, which are efficiently managed by the designed mechatronic control scheme

Supporting active and healthy aging with advanced robotics integrated in smart environment

The technological advances in the robotic and ICT fields represent an effective solution to address specific societal problems to support ageing and independent life. One of the key factors for these technologies is the integration of service robotics for optimising social services and improving quality of life of the elderly population. This chapter aims to underline the barriers of the state of the art, furthermore the authors present their concrete experiences to overcome these barriers gained at the RoboTown Living Lab of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna within past and current projects. They analyse and discuss the results in order to give recommendations based on their experiences. Furthermore, this work highlights the trend of development from stand-alone solutions to cloud computing architecture, describing the future research directions

Robotic Car Using Arduino with Bluetooth Controller

The Android controlled temperature sensing RoboCar. The working is based on Android OS, Arduino, L298N motor, DC motor driver, temperature sensor-DHT11 and Bluetooth module. Arduino is an opensource prototype platform. Sensing the environment of the temperature sensor. Remote control car, with an Arduino, L298N motor and Bluetooth module. Sensing the temperature, with an DHT11, Arduino and Bluetooth module. Upload the code to the Arduino using the knowledge of programming. The Arduino code simulated on software and be interface with the hardware. The device can be controlled by any smart device with android. AirDroid is an app exclusive to Android which enables you to connect your device to PC through a Wi-Fi controller of wireless network. It is used to connect the mobile camera to view in our pc to fixing in the car. It also used to view the location of the car. The Robotic car sense the temperature to view by the mobile app. All the controls of the vehicle on the app on that device. It is used to sense the environment of the military force before doing some of the process. It is used for the sensing the environment of the system

Architecture and Applications of IoT Devices in Socially Relevant Fields

Number of IoT enabled devices are being tried and introduced every year and there is a healthy competition among researched and businesses to capitalize the space created by IoT, as these devices have a great market potential. Depending on the type of task involved and sensitive nature of data that the device handles, various IoT architectures, communication protocols and components are chosen and their performance is evaluated. This paper reviews such IoT enabled devices based on their architecture, communication protocols and functions in few key socially relevant fields like health care, farming, firefighting, women/individual safety/call for help/harm alert, home surveillance and mapping as these fields involve majority of the general public. It can be seen, to one's amazement, that already significant number of devices are being reported on these fields and their performance is promising. This paper also outlines the challenges involved in each of these fields that require solutions to make these devices reliableComment: 1