Obstacles Avoidance for Intelligent Telepresence Robot Using Interval Type-2 FLC

Intelligent Telepresence robot is a new trend for communication remotely today, and obstacles avoidance for robot is one of the important research areas. This re- search reports and presents obstacles avoidance method for intelligent telepresence robot, a custom-build robot system specifically designed for teleconference with multiple people. We propose an interval type-2 FLC (Fuzzy Logic Controller) that is able to handle uncer- tainties for measuring distance of obstacle to navigate the robot. The robot is controlled using computer networks, so the manager/supervisor at office/industry can direct the robot to the intended person to start a discussion/inspection. We build a web application for controlling the multi-client telepresence robot and open-source video conference sys- tem. Experimental result shows the ability of robot to be controlled remotely and to avoid obstacles smoothly and we evaluated its performance. Keywords: Telepresence robot, Interval type-2 FLC, Obstacle avoidance

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