Development of user-friendly intelligent home robot focused on safety and security

Recently, the government´s U-City projects are underway. Accordingly, interests in home automation are increasing. However generally, sensors and devices of the home automation system are equipped and used in a fixed position. In this paper, the mobile robot for collecting environmental information is applied to home automation. This system has complementary for the existing system that has the limitation of collecting information. The robot has two kinds of main features. First, when the user is not in the house, the robot performs a safety and security feature. Second, when the user is in the house, the user manipulates the robot and plays a simple game. The robot uses Wi-Fi to communicate with the home server. Furthermore, if the home server is not working, the robot comes to the backup server for safety and security. Therefore, we have developed a high-utilization of home robot.