Beyond the Web: manipulating the real world
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
A distributed framework for online robots
Beyond webcams
Xavier: an autonomous mobile robot on the web
Beyond webcams
RobOnWeb: a setup with mobile mini-robots on the Web
Beyond webcams
VISIT: a teleoperation system via the computer network
Beyond webcams
Introduction to AI Robotics
Planar Grasping Characterization Based on Curvature-Symmetry Fusion
Applied Intelligence
Internet-Based Robotic System Using CORBA as Communication Architecture
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
Robot teleoperation featuring commercially available wireless network cards
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Web-based mobile robot platform for real-time exercises
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
End-to-end congestion control protocols for internet telerobotics
RA '07 Proceedings of the 13th IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications
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This paper describes a complete vision-based online robot system that allows controlling both an educational and an industrial robot via web. We address some of the limitations of current similar systems particularly concerning the user interface. Some of its novel features are: its adjustable autonomy, so that the user can decide the right level of interaction from high-level voice commands down to mouse clicks, reducing in this way the cognitive fatigue resulting from remote operation; the interface is predictive, by using a 3D virtual environment endowed with augmented reality capabilities, the user can predict the results of the actions before sending the command to the real robot. Thus, network bandwidth is saved and off-line task specification is possible. This high level interaction is possible thanks to some built-in modules for performing basic tasks such as automatic object recognition, image processing, autonomous grasp determination and speech recognition. Finally, the system has been tested by means of an application in the Education and Training domain. One hundred undergraduate students have been using the web-based interface in order to program “Pick and Place” operations with the system. The results show performance, statistics, connection rates, and the students' opinions, as a way of evaluating the convenience and usability of the user interface.