A visual interface for security robots

The authors evaluate the visual telepresence interface for a mobile robot which was developed as a testbed for a new robotic security system. This robot is fully tele-operated in the first stage and is to be used to identify a fire, fight an initial fire and detect intruders. By way of experiment, the authors drove the robot through a test path to evaluate this interface. A fixed display was used as a comparison to the visual interface. It was found that, due to its performance and other restrictions, the visual telepresence interface is not suitable to tele-operate this kind of mobile robot