Development of AI-Based Measurement System Towards Intelligent Auto-Tracking Umbrella

Abstract

The umbrella is widely used to protect people during harm-sunny or rainy days. Such situations require a person to hold the umbrella for a long time and continuously use one or two hands for lifting. The intelligent auto-tracking umbrella is deemed to be an excellent solution for protecting people in such situations since it doesn’t need to be held for a time and can track them intelligently without any physical contact. This can be achieved by integrating two systems, namely, auto-tracking and auto-closing/opening. First, the tracking system uses four ultrasonic sensors to determine a person’s position and fuzzy logic is used to give the output speeds and directions of the umbrella. The directions and tracking movement of the umbrella are simply simulated through LEDs. Second, the automatic opening and closing umbrella system uses a DC motor with a lead screw mechanism to automatically open and close the umbrella based on the presence of the person or not. The Arduino Mega 2560 is used as the main controller and sends the appropriate commands and signals. The experimental results show that the AI-based measurement system can effectively detect the directions of the persons by switching on the LEDs when they are moving towards one of the ultrasonic sensors and the automatic opening and closing system opens and closes the umbrella based on the presence of the person or not. As a future work, the proposed measurement system can be integrated with the intelligent auto-tracking umbrella held by a drone to track the person in indoor/outdoor environments.