A Selecting Robots Method Using Visible Light Communication
International Journal of Ad hoc, sensor & Ubiquitous Computing (IJASUC), 9 (4):
8 (August 2018)DOI: 10.5121/ijasuc.2018.9401
Abstract
From the view of Industry 4.0, robots and machines like as automated guided vehicles and manufacturing
robots are focused on in order to achieve factory automations which changings from mass production to
variant variable production. Managing them are important task for workers. For this environment, remote
control is required to manage these devices, however, it is often difficult to know the identification number
of them. Therefore, we propose a selecting system where we can select the controlled target device by using
visible light communication. The transmitter sends its own identification number by the visible light
communication and transmits the control command using wireless communication like as Wi-Fi. At this
time, the control command is transmitted by the broadcast communication to all the devices connected to
the same network. The device selected by the visible light communication receives the identification number
of its transmitter, and the device can execute the control command on Wi-Fi which has the same
identification number in its packet. In order to evaluate the complexity of device selection, we have some
experiments which measures the operation time to select devices with unknown identification number.
From this experimental result, the proposed method is considered to be the easy-to-use remote controller
with the least operation error