以物聯網為基礎之人－寵物互動

Internet of Things for Human-Pet Interaction

施詠陞(Yong-Sheng Shih)

指導教授 ： 薩馬尼乎曼

國立臺北大學/電機資訊學院/電機工程學系/碩士(2016年)

摘要

本論文主要目標是以增進與改良飼主與寵物的互動為基礎，設計並開發出一套嶄新的寵物互動裝置。隨著現在逐漸繁忙的社會，以及老年化、少子化的影響，導致人口結構的改變，人與人之間的關係亦不同於以往過去的社會，故許多人會將情感轉而寄託在寵物上，然而大部分的飼主因工作或行程的繁忙，以致無法充分的照料與關注的自己的寵物．而導致了寵物不論是身理上的影響或是心理上的傷害。為了解決上述問題，我們設計了此套飼主與寵物間的智慧型互動裝置，以彌補飼主與寵物之間的距離，本研究是以物聯網的概念為基礎，以建構在Linux系統上的Raspberry Pi電路板作為開發平台的概念，所提出的一套系統；供飼主能夠透過智慧型手機，經由網路與寵物做及時的通信；於輸入端使用者能夠透過此套系統的視覺模塊，獲得寵物目前的視角畫面，而輸出模塊能夠透過伺服馬達，來控制寵物身上的穿戴設備達到餵食的目的。在未來，我們期望這個系統能夠獲得再更進一步的改善，在遠端飼主便能進行即時的實體互動，猶如飼主與寵物身處在同一物理空間。

關鍵字

物聯網 ； 互動式系統 ； 人機互動 ； 智能機器人

並列摘要

Nowadays, factors such as aging from one side and declining birthrate on the other side in addition to modern workforce and change in social structure has strong impact on relationships in the society. As one result of the above factors many people prefer to own a pet as a companion. However, due to the busy work schedule for most of the pet owners and not being able to share the caring task with others, paying full time attention to the pet is almost impossible. To solve the mentioned problem, we aimed to develop intelligent and interactive system to bridge the gap between the pet and the pet owner. This research is based on the concept of the Internet of Things by using Linux operating system and Raspberry Pi board as development platform. The proposed system provides a smart phone application to the pet owner that can make real-time communication with the pet using internet. As an input module the owner can use the vision module of the system to have a view of his/her pet and as an output module can control the servo motors of the wearable device on the pet for feeding. In future, we hope this system can be improved and used by pet owners for real-time interaction with their pets from distance where they can be in the same location physically.

並列關鍵字

Internet of Thing ； Interactive Systems ； Human-Computer Interaction ； Intelligent Robotics

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