Design of an assistant infant monitoring system using fish robots

  • Authors:
  • Seung Y. Na;Daejung Shin;Jin Y. Kim;Min S. Park;Seong-Joon Baek;Sowket M. Ali;Aaron Park

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Chonnam National University, Buk-gu, Gwangju, South Korea;Dept. of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Chonnam National University, Buk-gu, Gwangju, South Korea;Dept. of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Chonnam National University, Buk-gu, Gwangju, South Korea;Dept. of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Chonnam National University, Buk-gu, Gwangju, South Korea;Dept. of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Chonnam National University, Buk-gu, Gwangju, South Korea;Dept. of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Chonnam National University, Buk-gu, Gwangju, South Korea;Dept. of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Chonnam National University, Buk-gu, Gwangju, South Korea

  • Venue:
  • CIMMACS'06 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Man-Machine Systems and Cybernetics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Design of an assistant infant monitoring system requires intelligent man-machine interaction as well as ubiquitous convergence technologies since infants should be continuously monitored regardless ofthe location of their guardians. Moreover, the image and audio information about infants should be accessed by anyone who is interested in the states of infants. Fish robots are used for the camera platform to provide sufficient degrees of freedom of camera focusing and interesting features to the infants while preventing infants from touching the camera. To conform to the restriction of the ubiquitous environment, the amount of visual information is sufficiently reduced as far as the infants' state can be recognized. The proposed method provides effective infant monitoring results in ubiquitous environment by cellular phones, PDAs or IP devices.