Mobile robot guidance using light dependant resistor device

Author

Bazir, Amira A Mohd ; Ramli, Khairul F. ; Ibrahim, Nur S. ; Pying, Lim Y. ; Rokhani, Fakhrul Z.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Commun. Syst. Eng., Univ. Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

fYear

2011

fDate

4-6 March 2011

Firstpage

507

Lastpage

511

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop a mobile robot which is able to be guided by a light source illuminated on the horizontal surface. The robot is equipped with light dependant resistors to detect the spot of light illuminated by the light source which has higher light intensity than the ambient lighting. In particular, we investigated the voltage response of the light dependant resistor given various positioning of the device on the mobile robot and verified the experimental data with the lux meter reading. Results show that the detection distance is a strong function of the facing angle of the light dependant resistor and detection distance for the robot is 50cm for facing angle of 0 degrees.

Keywords

light sources; mobile robots; position control; ambient lighting; detection distance; distance 50 cm; light dependant resistor device; light intensity; light source; lux meter reading; mobile robot guidance; positioning; Educational robots; Light sources; Mobile robots; Resistors; Robot sensing systems; light dependant resistor; light intensity; lux meter; mobile robot guidance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing and its Applications (CSPA), 2011 IEEE 7th International Colloquium on

Conference_Location

Penang

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-414-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSPA.2011.5759932

Filename

5759932