Title :
Object oriented network control of Wheeeler - the hyper mobile inspection robot
Author :
Pytasz, Michal ; Granosik, Grzegorz
Author_Institution :
Tech. Univ. of Lodz, Lodz
Abstract :
In this paper some issues related to the modelling and control of a new designed hyper mobile inspection robot are discussed. The device is articulated body, hyper redundant snakelike machine driving on wheels and therefore we call it -Wheeeler. We decided to reserve significant part of project for simulation stage to thoroughly test most aspects of construction, communication and operation of our robot. In construction we evaluated kinematics of Wheeeler, numbers and ranges of movements of joints, and positioning of various sensors. Robot is supposed to be used as a network controlled teleoperator and hence we implemented CORBA based communication. Finally we consider some methods to make teleoperation of our hyper mobile robot more intuitive.
Keywords :
control engineering computing; distributed object management; inspection; mobile robots; object-oriented programming; robot kinematics; telerobotics; CORBA; hyper mobile inspection robot; hyper redundant snakelike machine; network controlled teleoperator; object oriented network wheeeler robot control; wheeeler kinematics; Communication system control; Inspection; Kinematics; Mobile communication; Mobile robots; Object oriented modeling; Robot sensing systems; Teleoperators; Testing; Wheels; CORBA technology; hyper mobile robot; simulation;
Conference_Titel :
Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics, 2007. SSRR 2007. IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1568-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1569-4
DOI :
10.1109/SSRR.2007.4381280