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RISCBOT: A WWW-Enabled Mobile Surveillance and Identification Robot

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This article describes RISCBOT (RISCBOT name has been derived from RISC lab and ‘bot’ of robot, a modular 802.11 b-enabled mobile autonomous robot built at the RISC lab of the University of Bridgeport. RISCBOT localizes itself and successfully fulfills www – enabled online user requests and navigates to various rooms, employing a visual recognition algorithm. This article describes the mechanical design, hardware and software algorithms of the robot, and the web-based interface for communicating with the robot.

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  1. RISC lab, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, 06601, USA

    Sarosh Patel, Rajeev Sanyal & Tarek Sobh

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⋆RISC lab: Interdisciplinary Robotics, Intelligent Sensing and Control laboratory at the University of Bridgeport.

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Patel, S., Sanyal, R. & Sobh, T. RISCBOT: A WWW-Enabled Mobile Surveillance and Identification Robot. J Intell Robot Syst 45, 15–30 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-005-9014-4

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