Performance analysis of WLAN based mobile robot teleoperation

Author

Szanto, Zoltan ; Marton, Lorinc ; Haller, Piroska ; Gyorgy, Sebestyen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Tech. Univ. of Cluj Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

fYear

2013

fDate

5-7 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

299

Lastpage

305

Abstract

The present paper demonstrates through experiments that the performance of a teleoperated robot system is strongly influenced by the quality of the communication environment, which in our case was a wireless LAN (WLAN). We analyzed the path following capability of a human operator in the case of a teleoperated robot, with haptic feedback. We investigated the influence of external WLAN traffic over the precision of robot tracking. The paper presents both the design of the bilateral teleoperation system for mobile robots and the experimental methodology for performance evaluation of teleoperation systems in open wireless networks.

Keywords

mobile robots; telerobotics; wireless LAN; WLAN based mobile robot teleoperation system; bilateral teleoperation system; external WLAN traffic; haptic feedback; open wireless networks; path following capability; robot tracking; wireless LAN; Delays; Force; Haptic interfaces; Mobile robots; Robot kinematics; Wireless LAN; Communication system traffic; Teleoperators Mobile robots; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cluj-Napoca

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1493-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCP.2013.6646125

Filename

6646125