Design and implementation of a security and patrol robot system

With the development of society and economy, more and more high buildings and large mansions come forth. The task to maintain public security become heavier, it is imperative to seek an automatic patrol solution. This paper describes how to construct a security and patrol robot system based on modular and object oriented approach. A novel controller WinCon-8k running on the real time Windows CE operation system is applied to the robot design. The robot equipped with stereovision and friendly man-robot interface can finish tasks such as navigation and maintaining the public security. At last, a cooperative supermarket providing an extraordinary test bed permits to establish meaningful statistics over 3 months (from September 12 to December 15). The experiment results show the good performance of the robot.