Title :
Internet-based tele-control system for wheeled mobile robot
Author :
Wei, Wenbin ; Pan, Yaodong ; Furuta, Katsuhisa
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Inf. & Control Eng., Guangxi Inst. of Technol., Liuzhou, China
Abstract :
This paper presents an Internet-based tele-control system for a wheeled mobile robot. A real-time embedded controller using Labview was designed to control the mobile robot remotely through Internet by a Web browser, for example, Internet Explorer or Netscape. A CCD camera is mounted on the mobile robot to acquire information, which is displayed inside the browser for the remote operator´s operation. The IEEE 802.11x (WiFi) wireless LAN linking the robot to Internet and long run batteries are used so that the mobile robot can move without any cable connected to power supply or Internet. The designed mobile robot can be remotely operated from anywhere around the world as long as there is a set of computer with keyboard, mouse, display and connection to Internet.
Keywords :
CCD image sensors; Internet; control engineering computing; embedded systems; mobile robots; telerobotics; wireless LAN; CCD camera; IEEE 802.11x wireless LAN; Internet Explorer; Internet-based telecontrol system; Labview; Netscape; long run batteries; real-time embedded controller; wheeled mobile robot; Cameras; Charge coupled devices; Charge-coupled image sensors; Computer displays; Internet; Joining processes; Mobile robots; Robot control; Robot vision systems; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Mechatronics and Automation, 2005 IEEE International Conference
Conference_Location :
Niagara Falls, Ont., Canada
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9044-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICMA.2005.1626715