A human machine interface for distributed virtual laboratories

Author

Gertz, Mathew E. ; Stewart, David B. ; Khosla, Pradeep K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Volume

1

Issue

4

fYear

1994

Firstpage

5

Lastpage

13

Abstract

To support a distributed virtual laboratory, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University has developed Onika, an ironically programmed human machine interface with hypermedia capabilities. Onika can retrieve reconfigurable real-time software modules from remote sites via the Internet or World Wide Web and integrate these modules with locally developed modules. Developers can then use Onika to assemble the resulting reusable code into applications in order to control both local and remote robotic systems.<>

Keywords

Internet; hypermedia; robots; software libraries; software reusability; user interfaces; Carnegie Mellon University; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Internet; Onika; World Wide Web; distributed virtual laboratories; human machine interface; hypermedia; ironically programmed human machine interface; locally developed modules; reconfigurable real-time software modules; reusable code; robotic systems; Application software; Assembly systems; Control systems; Hardware; Humans; Laboratories; Robot sensing systems; Robotic assembly; Robotics and automation; Software libraries;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-9932

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/100.388265

Filename

388265