A modular structure for Intemet mobile robots

Author

Liu, Peter Xiaoping ; Meng, Max Q H ; Hu, Chao ; Sheng, Jie

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. & Comput. Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

27-31 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

1111

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a software and hardware structure for on-line mobile robotic systems. The system hardware configuration mainly consists of a commercially available Pioneer 2 PeopleBot mobile robot, a Sony PTZ video camera and a pair of BreezeNet indoor wireless Ethernet adaptors. The system employs a client-server software architecture in which the client server is insulated from the lower-level details of the mobile robot. This architecture is implemented on the real Internet and the preliminary result is promising. By adopting this modular structure, it will be very easy to construct an experimental platform for the research on diverse teleoperation topics such as remote control algorithms, interface designs, network protocols and applications etc.

Keywords

Internet; client-server systems; indoor radio; local area networks; mobile robots; software architecture; BreezeNet indoor wireless Ethernet adaptors; Internet; Pioneer 2 PeopleBot; Sony PTZ video camera; client-server software architecture; hardware structure; interface designs; mobile robots; modular structure; network protocols; online mobile robotic systems; remote control algorithms; software; Cameras; Computer architecture; Ethernet networks; Hardware; Insulation; Internet; Mobile robots; Robot vision systems; Software architecture; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2003. (IROS 2003). Proceedings. 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7860-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.2003.1248793

Filename

1248793