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The Wi-Fi networks are more and more omnipresent in our quotidian. It is a cheap technology that is available in many places, public or private (e.g.: schools, hospitals, public transports). The vulgarization of this technology is related to the impact that the concept of Internet of Things (IoT) has been having during the last years, revolutionizing the way to interact with “things”. The use of Unmanned Vehicles (UV) tends to increase, for ludic or professional ends. These vehicles allow to assist and minimize the human intervention in many situations, but one of the associated problems settles in their communication architecture that needs the use of an ad-hoc remote controller that restricts the control area. This work intends to explore the ESP8266 microcontroller to control a UV over a Wi-Fi connection. Three architectures that support the interaction with the vehicle are presented and specified. The real test scenario validated all the described architectures to control the vehicles.
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This work was supported by: national funds through the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the project UID/CEC/04524/2016; and by the project SAICT-POL/24048/2016 – NIE - Natural Interfaces with the Elderly, with reference NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-024048, financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) through the Northern Regional Operational Program (NORTE2020).
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Safadinho, D., Ramos, J., Ribeiro, R., Reis, A., Rabadão, C., Pereira, A. (2019). Communication Modes to Control an Unmanned Vehicle Using ESP8266. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST'19 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 931. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16184-2_6
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