Conventionally, wireless controlled robots have a drawback of limited working

range, limited frequency range and limited control. Use of mobile phones for
robotic control can overcome these limitations. It provides the advantages of
robust control, increased working range as large as the coverage area of the
service provider, no interference with other controllers and up to twelve controls
or even more.
Although, the appearance and capabilities of robot vary vastly, all robots
share the feature of a mechanical, movables structure under some form of control.
The control of robot involves three distinct phases: Perception, Processing, Action.
Generally, the Preceptors are sensors mounted on the robot, Processing is done by
the on board microcontroller and the Action or task is performed using motors or
with some other actuators.
In the project the robot is controlled by a mobile phone that makes a call to
the mobile phone attached to the robot. In the course of a call, if any button is
pressed a tone corresponding to the button pressed is heard at the other end called
Dual Tone Multiple frequency (DTMF) tone. The robot receives these tones with
help of phone stacked in the robot. The received tone is processed by the
microcontroller with the help of DTMF decoder IC CM8870 .This IC sends a
signals to the the motor driver IC L293d which derives the motor forward,
reverseetc


Technology Used
DTMF (Dual tone multi frequency) uses a combination of two sine wave tones to
represent a key. These tones are called row and column frequencies as they
correspond to the layout of a telephone keypad.

A DTMF keypad (generator or encoder) generates a sinusoidal tone which
is mixture of the row and column frequencies. The row frequencies are low group
frequencies. The column frequencies belong to high group frequencies. This
prevents misinterpretation of the harmonics. Also the frequencies for DTMF are
so chosen that none have a harmonic relationship with the others and that mixing
the frequencies would not produce sum or product frequencies that could mimic
another valid tone. The high-group frequencies (the column tones) are slightly
louder than the low-group to compensate for the high-frequency roll off of voice
audio systems.


Block Diagram and Description


As shown in the above block diagram, first block is the cell phone. It acts as a
DTMF generator with tone depending upon the key pressed. DTMF Decoder i.e.
IC CM8870 decodes the received tone & gives binary equivalent of it to the
microcontroller. The controller is programmed such that appropriate output is
given to Motor Drive ICL293D which will drive the two DC Motors connected to
it. The concept used for driving is Differential Drive, which ultimately cause the
two motors to rotate according to the key pressed on the keypad of the cell.




Application
1.GSM Controlled vehicles can be used in hazardous environment ,working in
deep oceans , and even space exploration
2.Remote controlled vehicles van be used by bombsqaud with additional
modification to current system.





Future Scope
1.Additional cameras can be included in the device for further improvement.
2.Two way communication can be linked between the user and the remote device .
3.For security purposes only a private number can be stored in the device to which
it respond and so that only particular number or no other numbers can control
the device.