Wireless monitoring and indoor navigation of a mobile robot using rfid

Abstract

The advent of new technologies like ZigBee, RFID, Android, Arduino has revolutionized the era of embedded system design. Nowadays, every user is surrounded by smart devices (robots) which make their life easier and comfortable. It has also been predicted by the researchers that by 2020, there will be billions of embedded devices talking to each other as compared to human beings termed as Internet of things (IoT). This paper is concerned with the development of autonomous mobile robot used for wireless control and navigation. This robot is equipped with ZigBee (for wireless data transfer), RFID reader (for reading the RFID tags to change the robot direction), and Arduino (for calculating the shortest path and providing commands to robot after reaching a RFID tag). This mobile robot has wide variety of applications in indoor navigation. The basic functionality of the proposed design is simulated on a chart paper designed by us, and the complete design is implemented around Arduino microcontroller with required necessary interfaces.