Indoor active surveillance

Abstract

This paper describes a robotics based surveillance system for indoors operation. The system is capable of performing common tasks autonomously such as detecting an intruder and having a robot approaching it while the rest of the team spreads to maximize the coverage of the area. The system developed is a small size networked system with fixed cameras connected over Ethernet and three mobile platforms used as active agents. The paper presents details of the prototype system, experimental results, and discusses the scalability of this setup when the area under surveillance is expanded.