Development of an Internet-based multi-robot teleoperation system

Abstract

The Internet-based teleoperation has been studied in more and more potential fields in the past years. The interest in multi-robot systems arises during recent years for their ability to perform better in complex environment. However, it is difficult for robots to perform tasks autonomously in complex conditions, thus a human operator at the remote site is needed to contribute his intelligence to the robot system. The Internet has brought out a new way for a human to operate multiple intelligent robots and an Internet-based multi-robot teleoperation system is developed in this paper. A behavior-based programming control concept is introduced to avoid the problems caused by the Internet latency in teleoperation and a pattern of combining the human intelligence with the artificial intelligence is proposed. The design of the system is also described in detail. ©2006 IEEE.