Novel Low-Power NRF24L01 Based Wireless Network Design for Autonomous Robots
Veerandi Kulasekara, Sachintha Balasooriya, Jaindeep Chandran, Ilya Kavalchuk · 2019
Cloud computing has become the leading solution to improve cost and power performance of various systems, especially for automated solutions. Communication system in this set-up becomes the crucial part of the control algorithms, as the path planning and motion control of the vehicles is done on the cloud system. When the system increases in number of integrated devices, the growing topology of networks should be developed. The concept of an autonomous rover that is designed to deplete the complexity of the delivery and surveillance by informing the user about the rover's status, current operating conditions and locations are presented in this paper. An analysis of the system design of the autonomous rover, the functionality of the base station and the communication system architecture using NRF2L01 communication topology is discussed herein. Results from the testing of the communication network between the rover and the base station are presented and discussed in this paper.