Security Robot

Steven Burg, Alex Coyle, Brent Satterwhite
ECE 4180-B Dr. Hamblen
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The security robot was designed to detect motion, then follow and record a video of the object in motion. It trys to keep the object of motion in the center of the frame and then E-mail the video to the owner.

This project makes use of: The iRobot Create Robot, a Intel Atom PC, a Logitech Webcam, and a 5500mAh rechargeable battery.

To allow the robot to follow motion we used Aforge and split the camera into a 32x32 grid of square tiles. This grid is then divided into three virtical sections defined as left, middle, and right. The code then counts the number of 'lit' tiles and moves towards the greatest source of motion.