Analysis and prediction of jitter of internet one-way time-delay for teleoperation systems

Internet random time delay constitutes a major challenge for Internet-based teleoperation systems. Since the uncertain time delay may degrade the system performance, and even lead to instability. Although large-scale research works have been conducted on the understanding, testing, and analysis of Internet round trip time delay (RTT), it is not appropriate to use RTT in control methods design. It is well known that control commands arrive at the slave site in an aperiodic manner as a result of Internet random time delay. The subsequent control command will terminate the execution of the current command. Consequently, we will get precise information for slave system once the time delay jitter can be known in advance. This paper proposes a novel research idea for Internet-based teleoperation system from the point of view of delay jitter prediction. Statistical properties of the time delay jitter are investigated. Furthermore, the sparse multivariate linear regression method is used to give prediction on Internet time delay jitter. Simulation results demonstrate that sparse multivariate linear regressive method gives a precise prediction, which indicates that the proposed control method based on Internet time delay jitter has a broad prospect in teleoperation systems.