Towards multi-platform software architecture for Collaborative Teleoperation

Christophe Domingues (1) , Samir Otmane (1) , Frédéric Davesne (1) , Malik Mallem (1)

1 IBISC - Informatique, Biologie Intégrative et Systèmes Complexes

Augmented Reality (AR) can provide to a Human Operator (HO) a real help in achieving complex tasks, such as remote control of robots and cooperative teleassistance. Using appropriate augmentations, the HO can interact faster, safer and easier with the remote real world. In this paper, we present an extension of an existing distributed software and network architecture for collaborative teleoperation based on networked human-scaled mixed reality and mobile platform. The first teleoperation system was composed by a VR application and a Web application. However the 2 systems cannot be used together and it is impossible to control a distant robot simultaneously. Our goal is to update the teleoperation system to permit a heterogeneous collaborative teleoperation between the 2 platforms. An important feature of this interface is based on the use of different Virtual Reality platforms and different Mobile platforms to control one or many robots.

Mots clés: Robot; Collaboration; Teleoperation; Telerobotic; Augmented Reality; Virtual Reality; Architecture

Domaines: Architectures Matérielles [cs.AR]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Robotique [cs.RO]

Christophe Domingues, Samir Otmane, Frédéric Davesne, Malik Mallem. Towards multi-platform software architecture for Collaborative Teleoperation. 2nd Mediterranean Conference on Intelligent Systems and Automation (CISA'09), Mar 2009, Zarzis, Tunisia. pp.347--349, ⟨10.1063/1.3106500⟩. ⟨hal-00376597⟩