TY - GEN
T1 - Secure Communication System Implementation for Robot-based Surveillance Applications
AU - Rishikesh,
AU - Bhattacharya, Ansuman
AU - Thakur, Atul
AU - Banda, Gourinath
AU - Ray, Rajarshi
AU - Halder, Raju
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work is partially supported by the IMPRINT-2 Project (IMP/2018/000523) from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
Funding Information:
This project is supported under the auspices of SERB DST IMPRINT II consortium project involving IIT Patna, IIT Indore, IIT Dhanbad and IACS Kolkata. 1Rishikesh and A. Bhattacharya are with Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India [email protected], [email protected] 2A. Thakur and R. Halder are with Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India {athakur, halder}@iitp.ac.in 3G. Banda is with Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India [email protected] 4R. Ray is with Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India [email protected]
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/9/20
Y1 - 2021/9/20
N2 - Surveillance systems involve a camera module (at a fixed location) connected/streaming video via Internet Protocol to a (video) server. In our IMPRINT consortium project, by mounting miniaturised camera module/s on mobile quadruped-lizard like robots, we developed a stealth surveillance system, which could be very useful as a monitoring system in hostage situations. In this paper, we report about the communication system that enables secure transmission of: Live-video from robots to a server, GPS-coordinates of robots to the server and Navigation-commands from server to robots. Since the end application is for stealth surveillance, often can involve sensitive data, data security is a crucial concern, especially when data is transmitted through the internet. We use the RC4 algorithm for video transmission; while the AES algorithm is used for GPS data and other commands' data transmission. Advantages of the developed system is easy to use for its web interface which is provided on the control station. This communication system, because of its internet-based communication, it is compatible with any operating system environment. The lightweight program runs on the control station (on the server side) and robot body that leads to less memory consumption and faster processing. An important requirement in such hostage surveillance systems is fast data processing and data-transmission rate. We have implemented this communication systems with a single-board computer having GPU that performs better in terms of speed of transmission and processing of data.
AB - Surveillance systems involve a camera module (at a fixed location) connected/streaming video via Internet Protocol to a (video) server. In our IMPRINT consortium project, by mounting miniaturised camera module/s on mobile quadruped-lizard like robots, we developed a stealth surveillance system, which could be very useful as a monitoring system in hostage situations. In this paper, we report about the communication system that enables secure transmission of: Live-video from robots to a server, GPS-coordinates of robots to the server and Navigation-commands from server to robots. Since the end application is for stealth surveillance, often can involve sensitive data, data security is a crucial concern, especially when data is transmitted through the internet. We use the RC4 algorithm for video transmission; while the AES algorithm is used for GPS data and other commands' data transmission. Advantages of the developed system is easy to use for its web interface which is provided on the control station. This communication system, because of its internet-based communication, it is compatible with any operating system environment. The lightweight program runs on the control station (on the server side) and robot body that leads to less memory consumption and faster processing. An important requirement in such hostage surveillance systems is fast data processing and data-transmission rate. We have implemented this communication systems with a single-board computer having GPU that performs better in terms of speed of transmission and processing of data.
KW - embedded hardware
KW - surveillance
KW - swarm robots
KW - Wireless communications
U2 - 10.1109/IRIA53009.2021.9588788
DO - 10.1109/IRIA53009.2021.9588788
M3 - Article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85119092353
SP - 270
EP - 275
BT - 2021 International Symposium of Asian Control Association on Intelligent Robotics and Industrial Automation, IRIA 2021
PB - IEEE
T2 - 2021 International Symposium of Asian Control Association on Intelligent Robotics and Industrial Automation, IRIA 2021
Y2 - 20 September 2021 through 22 September 2021
ER -