Development of a Service Robot System for a Remote Child Monitoring Platform

Network-based intelligent surveillance is becoming more popular, and remote monitoring platforms using web cameras with mobile robots can be used as child monitoring platforms in infant caring facilities. This paper presents a prototype of a service robot system as a nextgeneration intelligent surveillance system for child monitoring. In order to achieve this, a cooperative server-client control scheme is developed that has multiple users and a remote robot that utilizes an appropriate communication method. The experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed service robot system through integrating the required skills into the prototype of an infant caring surveillance system.