A Framework for Sensory-based P2P Collaborative Environment

Operating multi-sensor mobile robots in hostile and hazardous environments, such as in rescue missions, while capturing and sending multimedia data-on-demand, in real-time to a collaborative group is a very challenging task. The task becomes even more complex when the sensory data to be disseminated in a peer-to-peer (P2P) multimedia collaborative environment. In the P2P environment, peers may not only request concurrent sensory data, like the panoramic view of the remote environment, temperature, distance to the nearest object, engage in audio/video conferencing, but also remotely dispatch control commands to guide the robot throughout the site. Many factors need to be carefully designed in order to achieve such a complex goal. In our current work, we design a sensory-based P2P multimedia collaborative environment where various types of sensory-data are sent to one of the peers in the collaborative session, which is then distributed among other peers within the group. As a proof of concept, we developed a prototype model of the system. Finally, we present our test results.