Collaboration Scenario of the Mobile Robot and Household Appliances based on IGRS Protocol

Intelligent Grouping and Resource Sharing (IGRS) is a new protocol for resource discovery, invocation and network management. It defines "seamless interoperability" connections among 3C devices. IGRS standard received high votes to become MVO in ISO/IEC JTC1 SC25 voting in 2006 and has passed the Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) voting in July 2008 to become an international standard. The approach is presented that enables mobile home service robots to interact with household electrical appliances based on the IGRS protocol. The systematic description of the service robot platform is made, which includes: the framework of the mobile robot platform, the ARM9 based system structures, the robot network system and the vision system of the mobile service robot. The service robot can cooperate with household air conditioners, refrigerators, microwave ovens and other equipment through the IGRS protocol. The robot acts as an intelligent household control center. The experiment shows the validity of the scenario of the collaboration system.