Smart Assistant Robot for Smart Home Management

Abstract

This paper highlights the use of an open source solution to build a fully stand-alone Smart Assistant Robot dedicated to managing a smart home for elderly people. The system is built around a voice communication module based on "Mycroft AI" to communicate with sensors and smart devices. It includes many software applications developed to recognize faces, set up tasks, and answer specific questions and requests. An embedded system is used as a local server to manage the smart home and its several applications. The results present many forms of actions that the robot can perform to answer the user's queries. The undertaken operations can be vocal answers, mechanical moves and motions, software tasks or just in form of a text message.