Towards and Autonomous Mobile Control Unit of Smart Homes
Since smart homes will be more and more popular in the future, the needs of finding a friendly, comfortable and smart interface between users and home environments are growing. However, conventional interfaces have reached their limits. So, this paper describes a new concept of interface in a home e...
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Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24261 http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-3057 |
| Summary: | Since smart homes will be more and more popular in the future, the needs of finding
a friendly, comfortable and smart interface between users and home environments are
growing. However, conventional interfaces have reached their limits. So, this paper
describes a new concept of interface in a home environment. This work is distinguished
by building a separable smart robot. A smart phone is used as a brain, and a robot car
is used as a body. With the system, people will be allowed to carry the robot's brain
when they are out of their home. In this case, the brain can not only be a normal smart
phone, but also can monitor parameters such as the temperature at home. On the other
hand, when people are at home, they will be allowed to put their phones on the robot
car. By invoking the system, they will have an assist-robot. This assist-robot will act
as a new interface in the smart home by following people and recognizing their voice
commands in order to take notes, to read notes and to control smart home devices. This
thesis also implements face recognition to improve the communication between users and
the interface. Test results show that our proposed system is well accepted. |
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