DocumentCode :
682484
Title :
Smartphone driven control of robots for education and research
Author :
Krofitsch, Christoph ; Hinger, Christian ; Merdan, M. ; Koppensteiner, Gottfried
Author_Institution :
Pratical Robot. Inst. Austria, Vienna, Austria
fYear :
2013
fDate :
25-27 Nov. 2013
Firstpage :
148
Lastpage :
154
Abstract :
Robots are getting increasingly sophisticated and complex and need more simple and intuitive ways for supervision and programming. Simultaneously, smartphones are becoming more innovative, are easier to use and equipped with features and accessories that are capable of offering easier robot control and enhancing user experience. This facilitates a broad range of possibilities for programming, supervision, research, education and training in different robotics domains. Considering restrictions accompanied by entering this new domain, we introduce the smartphone as platform for the control of robots based on a developed controller. Its goal is to be as flexible as possible to meet the given requirements in education and research, and simultaneously offer a easy and intuitive user interface. Flexibility was achieved through modularity and layers of abstraction in the control architecture and hardware design. We´ve developed both software and hardware prototypes and evaluated them in terms of social acceptance and usability.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; control engineering computing; educational robots; human-robot interaction; robot programming; smart phones; software prototyping; user interfaces; control architecture; developed controller; education; hardware design; hardware prototype; robot control; robots; smartphone driven control; software prototype; user interface; Computer architecture; Education; Protocols; Robots;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Robotics, Biomimetics, and Intelligent Computational Systems (ROBIONETICS), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Jogjakarta
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-1206-3
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ROBIONETICS.2013.6743595
Filename :
6743595
Link To Document :
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