Design of a teleoperated mobile robot test platform

Author

Wyard-Scott, L. ; Meng, Q.-H.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Alberta Univ., Edmonton, Alta., Canada

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

20-22 Aug 1997

Firstpage

577

Abstract

This paper presents the design of a teleoperated mobile robot test bed developed at the Advanced Robotics and Teleoperation Lab., University of Alberta. A brief mechanical description is given, followed by presentation of a higher flexible workcell hardware structure utilising four distinct computational elements. The system software, written using TCL/TK and C, is presented along with an outline of the overall control algorithm. The operator´s graphical interface is also described

Keywords

C language; graphical user interfaces; laboratories; mobile robots; programming environments; telerobotics; testing; Advanced Robotics and Teleoperation Laboratory; C language; TCL/TK; University of Alberta; control algorithm; flexible workcell hardware structure; graphical interface; mechanical description; teleoperated mobile robot test platform; Control systems; Hardware; Infrared sensors; Mechanical sensors; Mobile robots; Robot sensing systems; Sensor arrays; Sonar navigation; Testing; Wheels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, 1997. 10 Years PACRIM 1987-1997 - Networking the Pacific Rim. 1997 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3905-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACRIM.1997.620329

Filename

620329