Infrared camera based robot position determening and control system

Implementation of a microcontroller-based robot positioning and control system is presented in the paper. The system is based on use of an analog grayscale camera with an infrared filter and LED lightning and transmitter. The use of this system makes it possible to implement an intelligent fuzzy logic controller that is used to control robot's movement on the table in the direction of the target with an obstacle avoiding. The goal of the motion and obstacles are virtual and set in a special software written with C++ programming language. A decentralized and distributed system enabling a control of a group of robots through a local network or Internet and based on the client-server model and data transmission protocol TCP is also considered.