A tele-robot assistant for remote environment management

Author

Liao, Chunyuan ; Liu, Qiong ; Kimber, Don ; Lertsithichai, Surapong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

27-30 June 2004

Firstpage

1827

Abstract

Using a machine to assist remote environment management can save people´s time, effort, and traveling cost. This paper proposes a trainable mobile robot system, which allows people to watch a remote site through a set of cameras installed on the robot, drive the platform around, and control remote devices using mouse or pen based gestures performed in video windows. Furthermore, the robot can learn device operations when it is being used by humans. After being used for a while, the robot can automatically select device control interfaces, or launch a pre-defined operation sequence based on its sensory inputs.

Keywords

learning by example; mobile robots; remotely operated vehicles; sensor fusion; telerobotics; user interfaces; device control interfaces; mouse control interfaces; pen based gestures; predefined operation sequence launching; remote device control; remote environment management; remote site viewing; robot sensory inputs; sensor fusion; tele-robot assistant; trainable mobile robot; Automatic control; Cameras; Control systems; Costs; Environmental management; Mobile robots; Robot sensing systems; Robot vision systems; Robotics and automation; Watches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2004. ICME '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8603-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2004.1394612

Filename

1394612