Control system of miniature mobile robotic platform based on MobileAndroid

LI Rui, LI Xiaoming

(Faculty of Mechanical Engineering & Automation, Zhejiang SciTech University, Hangzhou 310018, China)

Abstract: Aiming at solving problems that the current high cost of small mobile robot control system, difficulty of platform building and excessive dependence on network, the MVC pattern in software software design pattern was applied to mobile robot control system design, at the same time, an experiment using C and Java language was carried on Android platform and Ardroid board. A small mobile robot platform named MoblileAndroid based on Android was put forward. Bluetooth and WiFi communication was applied to the platform. The system structure of the platform and controlling software was described in detail,including GUI module, motion controlling module, orders configuring module and data communication protocol between upper computer and slave machine. The test results of prototype system indicate that this intelligent mobile platform schema can not only build up hardware platform quickly, but bring the movement characteristics of mobile robot and the powerful processing and control ability of the intelligent mobile phone into full play. Combining both of their advantages,a complete intelligent mobile robot system is obtained.

Key words: Android; bluetooth; mobile robot; control system