Design and Implementation of a Mobile Robot with Autonomous Door Opening Ability

Abstract

Many services and security robots have been implemented in public areas, such as shopping malls and hospitals. However, it is difficult to let such robots to be used in a usual home environment. In order to let robots walk through multiple rooms, the robot must have the ability to open doors. In order to improve this issue, this paper presents a mobile robot design, which is based on the computer vision technology; therefore, the proposed robot could correctly recognize the door and the door handle and complete the action to open the door with their own mechanical arm.