Abstract
This report is the outcome of our capstone project named 'Remote-Controlled Camera Robot'. This project was completed by students from BCIT's Telecommunications option in the ECET department. As a completed project, we successfully built a robot car which can be controlled from a web interface through WiFi or a data cellular system. Using a webpage, the user can access commands that allow the robot to move forward, back, and turn. The video feed from the robot is also visible here, and the user can send simple commands to the camera. For example, we can record video, turn on/ off the camera, get picture capture, etc. This project is not only successful according to the technical point, but has also been completed within the limited budget and timeline. We broke down the project into two parts, which are hardware and software. The hardware part includes a 4-wheel chassis, Raspberry Pi, camera module, WiFi dongle, etc. In the software part, we have used Apache 2, HTML, Java, PHP, PiTunnel, etc. After building the hardware and software part separately, we can now control the robot car with Raspberry Pi, and communicate with it through a webpage. We have created a very basic robot car which can controlled by a webpage but there are lots of other possibilities to make it more efficient. Such as stronger motors / wheels, a better camera, improvement of the power supply or batteries. These future improvements will be explained at the end of the document in the FUTURE RECOMENDATIONS section.