A framework for interaction of distributed autonomous systems and human supervisors

Author

Spoelder, H.J.W. ; Germans, D.M. ; Renambot, L. ; Bal, H.E. ; de Waal, P.J. ; Groen, F.C.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Vrije Univ., Amsterdam, Netherlands

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1937

Abstract

Autonomous systems are rapidly gaining importance in a large number of situations relevant to the general public. By their nature their need for external control is low but still necessary. In this paper we present a framework for interaction of distributed autonomous systems and human supervisors. This framework exploits progress made in a number of related areas and shows that they can be effectively combined into one single framework. To this end it combines an environment for computational steering with virtual reality techniques for visualization and WAP-based communication for ubiquitous intervention. Given the described setup for the technology the current version must be seen as a prototype that shows the feasibility of this approach

Keywords

Internet telephony; cooperative systems; software agents; virtual instrumentation; virtual reality; CAVE environment; Internet robots; Internet-based systems; WAP-based communication; computational steering; distributed autonomous systems; external control; human in the loop; human supervisors; interaction framework; second-generation mobile phones; shared world; ubiquitous intervention; virtual instrument; virtual reality techniques; visualization; Anthropometry; Astronomy; Data visualization; Extraterrestrial measurements; Humans; IP networks; Internet; Mobile handsets; Physics; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2001. IMTC 2001. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE

Conference_Location

Budapest

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6646-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2001.929538

Filename

929538