Mobile robots are getting more and more important in our everyday life. By the development of electronics, embedded systems and informatics, the price of mobile robots significantly decreased, while their field of use increased.
One of the domestic uses of mobile robots is the field of hoovers or lawn mowers [1]. Hardware design of such a robot is not too complicated, so the simplified version of such a robot containing its control system and sensors required for moving can be assembled using cheap parts.
By the development of telecommunication technologies and ICs, there are several opportunities to perform wireless control, taking into consideration, that through this communication channel, transfer of complex information might be necessary, like continuous transfer of signals of some specific sensors beyond control signals, or even video signals. This means, that during communication, the proper speed of wireless transfer may reveal other opportunities in performing control of the mobile robot.
For controlling mobile robots, low-cost Bluetooth communication was applied in most cases [2], but the bandwidth of Bluetooth wireless transfer is not good enough and its range is only some meters either. There have been such ICs capable of WiFi communication available for some years, which support WiFi 802.11n transfer standard with appropriate encryption contrary to their relatively low prices, and their ranges are higher as well.
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