Internet based multimedia interface for the control and navigation of a mobile platform

Author

Sequeira, Vítor ; Bovisio, Emanuele ; Gonçalves, Joao G M

Author_Institution

Joint Res. Center, Eur. Comm., Ispra, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36342

Firstpage

1005

Abstract

The demonstration consists of piloting a remote mobile platform using Internet protocols and standards. The mobile platform is located at Joint Research Centre, Ispra (Italy). The local user accesses a Web page with a local PC running MS-Windows with the following software installed: Netscape Navigator 4.5 and CosmoPlayer 2.1. The minimum bandwidth requirements are 10 KBytes/second. For optimum conditions a bandwidth of 15 Kbytes/second is preferred. The PC has the following minimum technical characteristics: Pentium II; 96 MB of RAM; 3D Graphic Board with 8MB of on-board RAM. Further information and a video demonstration can be found on the TEST web page: http://mortimer.jrc.it/TEST/test.html

Keywords

mobile robots; multimedia systems; user interfaces; Internet protocols; minimum bandwidth requirements; mobile robotic platform; multimedia interface; remote mobile platform; software architecture; Bandwidth; Cameras; Hardware; Internet; Java; Navigation; Robot vision systems; Sockets; Software architecture; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1999. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Florence

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0253-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1999.778635

Filename

778635