Co-operating a blind robot teammate through vision based real-time communication

In this paper a scheme for multi-robot co-operation in a real time environment is presented which is undertaken using robot-to-robot communication through Data Terminating Equipments. Two mobile agents are considered in the workspace one of which is fully functional while the data acquiring functionalities of the other are impaired. The former is known as the Co-operating robot, while the latter as Blind robot. The data acquisition tools like camera and IR sensors are embedded in the co-operating robot. On the contrary, the blind robot is devoid of any such data acquisition tools. Thus the co-operating robot, in motion, gathers the necessary information about its environment using the camera and conveys the same to the blind robot. This is how the blind robot comes to know about any approaching obstacle or its ki n and in course of time deviates from its position. The novelty of this work lies in the use of wireless communication for data transfer from one robot to the other through the data terminal to support twin robot co-operation.