Development of a remote workstation for the operation of autonomous navigation mobile robot

The industry of robotics has achieved great success in recent decades as its application could be found widely in our daily life, especially for indoor robotics. Some important features for indoor mobile robot include, autonomous navigation with minimum human intervention and control of mobile robot from remote area. For autonomous navigation, techniques such as Simultaneous Localization and Mapping can be adopted. The operation of mobile robot from a remote area using a workstation could be realized by using Wi-fi. In this paper, the remote control of an indoor mobile robot from a workstation to perform autonomous navigation is demonstrated. By using a workstation, advantages such as ease of operation, minimum risk exposure to human could be achieved. However, it is important to ensure a smooth connection. In this paper, the parameters such as receive rate, bandwidth and frame per second needed for a smooth operation from the workstation is also presented.