As the smart phone becomes a remote processor for
more functions in people daily lifes, the operators of the indoor
survelience robots can be located anywhere if they have the
smart phone. This paper presents the design of a mobile robotic
system remotely controlled by a smart mobile phone via the
Internet. A control client on the Android smart phone was the
command center while the mobile robot was excuted to
surveilence. The model predictive control method was applied
on the side of the smart phone to generate an optimal sequence
of the control commands. A network compensator was embeded
on the robot to determine the current action of the robot.
Experiments under different netwok conditions were carried
out and analyzed for validation of the proposed system.