Development of a multi channel wireless data acquisition system for swarm robots

  Priyam Parikh,  Dr. Hitesh B. Shah,  Saurin Sheth

nowadays use of swarm robotic system is increasing. They are being used in defense applications, material handling, agriculture and many more. Swarm robots comprise of many analog and digital sensors. They can be humidity, temperature, ultrasonic, IR sensors, light dependant resistors (LDR) and many more. Each swarm robot transmits information to its neighbor swarm robot as well as to the control room. It is necessary to acquire real time data (in graphical format) from swarm robots to know the condition of the environment in which swarm robots work. However the actual concept of swarm robotics is not described here. This work deals with only real time wireless multichannel data acquisition. Here just a reference of swarm robots has been taken. Each swarm robot has Arduino UNO microcontroller and WIRDIN 1186 wireless module for transmitting the information to the control room. Control room has another WIRDIN 1186 wireless module to receive the information from the sensors mounted on swarm robots. Control room receives the information in Matlab graphical user interface. The technique of finding root locus of the acquired signal is also described. In a nut shell the intention is to show the multichannel wireless real time data acquisition technique.

Keywords- Swarm robots, Arduino UNO, WIRDIN 1186 wireless module, Multi channel data acquisition, Analog sensors, Root locus

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1401130
Page Number(s) - 717-725
Pubished in - Volume 2 | Issue 1 | March 2014
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Priyam Parikh,  Dr. Hitesh B. Shah,  Saurin Sheth,   "Development of a multi channel wireless data acquisition system for swarm robots ", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.2, Issue 1, pp.717-725, March 2014, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1401130.pdf