Long-term operation of a remote control system for mobile robots using a smartphone application by any user

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop a system that allows any user to easily connect to the ROS-based robot from a smartphone application at any time and remotely execute multiple ROS commands of the robot according to the user’s purpose. In addition, as an operational example, a remotely controlled mobile robot was developed. This robot system can be operated remotely for a long period of time by low level control commands and an automatic docking command to the charging stand. Also, the developed smart phone application can be applied to any ROS-based mobile robots.