Collaborative online teleoperation with spatial dynamic voting and a human "Tele-Actor"

Author

Goldberg, K. ; Song, D. ; Khor, Y. ; Pescovitz, D. ; Levandowski, A. ; Himmelstein, J. ; Shih, J. ; Ho, A. ; Paulos, E. ; Donath, J.

Author_Institution

California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

1179

Lastpage

1184

Abstract

Internet-based "online robots" now provide public access to remote locations such as museums and laboratories. The Tele-Actor is a collaborative online teleoperation system for distance learning that allows many students to simultaneously share control of a single mobile resource. Our goal is to preserve the educational advantages of field trips without the drawbacks of group travel. We propose the "spatial dynamic voting" (SDV) interface for multiple operator single robot (MOSR) teleoperation. The SDV collects, displays, and analyzes a sequence of spatial votes from multiple online operators at their Internet browsers. The votes drive the motion of a single mobile robot or human "Tele-Actor". The paper describes Version 3.0 of the system architecture, SDV interface, algorithms for automated goal selection, and metrics for collaboration and leadership. We report results from a July 2001 field test with 56 remote users

Keywords

Internet; distance learning; telerobotics; user interfaces; Internet browsers; Internet-based online robots; collaborative online teleoperation; collaborative online teleoperation system; distance learning; field trips; human Tele-Actor; laboratories; multiple operator single robot teleoperation; museums; remote locations; single mobile resource; spatial dynamic voting; spatial dynamic voting interface; spatial votes; Computer aided instruction; Control systems; Displays; Humans; Internet; Laboratories; Mobile robots; Online Communities/Technical Collaboration; Robotics and automation; Voting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 2002. Proceedings. ICRA '02. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7272-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2002.1014703

Filename

1014703