CoCo the Cool Robot Cat - (Home Safety Robot using AI, IoT, and DL).

Abstract

<p><strong>This paper focuses on the development of a mobile robot cat, named Coco, which serves multiple purposes such as assisting visually impaired individuals, monitoring children while they study, detecting suspicious human activities in living areas, acting as a home security system, and functioning as a pet robot. The robot cat has five subsystems: an Artificial Intelligence (AI) voice assistant, a human activity monitoring system, a live video stream, an obstacle detection system, and a smart sensor module with alert notifications. The first subsystem is responsible for processing voice inputs with an AI voice assistant, which decodes and understands the input before generating voice outputs. This subsystem was implemented using the Python programming language on Raspbian OS. The second subsystem was developed using Keras and TensorFlow and is responsible for monitoring human activities and alerting the user via email if any suspicious activity is detected. The third subsystem streams live video over a network using OpenCV. The fourth subsystem uses backpropagation and forward propagation to control the motion of the robot cat. Finally, the fifth subsystem uses five types of sensors - the PIR sensor, MQ2 sensor, temperature sensor, voltage sensor, and LDR sensor - to detect motion, smoke and toxic gasses, temperature, and light. To implement these subsystems, a combination of Raspbian OS and Nodemcu (Arduino IDE) environment was used.</strong></p&gt