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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Robotics Volume 2011, Article ID 197105, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2011/197105 Research Article Indoor Surveillance Security Robot with a Self-Propelled Patrolling Vehicle Hou-Tsan Lee, Wei-Chuan Lin, and Ching-Hsiang Huang Department of Information Technology, Takming University of Science and Technology, No. 56, Sec.1, Huanshan Road, Neihu, Taipei 11451, Taiwan Correspondence should be addressed to Hou-Tsan Lee, houtsan@.tw Received 10 March 2011; Revised 28 July 2011; Accepted 29 July 2011 Academic Editor: Ali Meghdari Copyright © 2011 Hou-Tsan Lee et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Self-propelled patrolling vehicles can patrol periodically in the designed area to ensure the safety like men do. The proposed vehicle cannot only save manpower, but also ensure the performance without mistakes caused by man. It is different from the traditional patrolling system which is limited by the manpower and the fixed camera positions. To improve such situation, this paper proposes a self-propelled patrolling vehicle which can move automatically to a wider range and record the monitored image by IPCAM within a predefined patrolling route. Besides, the user can use the mobile device or website to connect to the vehicle at anytime and anywhere and control it to move to the position to get the indoor image user wants. The position of self-propelled vehicles can be detected by the RFID reader as a feedback and be shown on the PC screen and smart phone. The recorded images can be also transmitted back to the server via WiFi system for face tracking and discriminating ana