Performance measurement and prediction in a distributed telerobotics system

In developing telerobotics systems, it is desirable to be able to predict the effect of adding or replacing system components on the overall system´s performance capacities. By appropriately stressing performance dimensions of a system and characterizing its behavior, we can develop a model that will describe the system quantitatively in terms of its total available “performance resources”. If the resource availability is greater than or equal to the resource demands for a given task, we can predict successful completion for the task. Using this approach, we can characterize new intelligent components and predict their performance in a given task. Results of a teleoperation experiment are included which yield a system performance capacity envelope for a telerobotics system