Abstract:
As robots enter novel, uncertain home and office environments, they are able to navigate these environments successfully. However, to be practically deployed robots should be able to manipulate their environment to gain access to new spaces, such as by opening a door and operating an elevator. This remains a challenging problem because a robot will encounter doors it has never seen before. Objects such as door handles and elevator buttons, though very different in appearance, are functionally similar. Thus, they share some common features in the way they can be perceived and acted upon. Infer how to manipulate it to open the door. Our system assumes no prior knowledge of the location or shape of the door handle. We also experimentally verify our algorithms on doors not seen in the training set, advancing our work towards being the first to enable our robot to navigate anywhere in a new building by opening doors and elevators, even ones it has not seen before.
Existing System:
In existing methods robot can enter and navigate into uncertain environments but it cannot able handle or operate doors. For monitoring and surveillance at different environments, we need a robot that can able to handle doors, switches, etc.
Proposed System: The focus of this paper is on the door opening and we assume that the reaching/grasping task has been accomplished. The Wheeled Robot mechanism has a two-fingered arm constructed with DC motors and gears. The operator has to control the robot wirelessly through Zigbee from a PC as well as we have CCTV camera to monitor the robots environment. Here, an Ultrasonic range finder detects obstacles on its way and sends the status back to the control section. It can be used in offices, homes and in construction fields it can navigate anywhere in a building by opening doors. It mainly reduces human interventions in home and office automation.