Teleoperation through the Internet : Experimental Results with a Complex Manipulator

Abstract : According to their research activities, some laboratories have to set up and share expensive full-scale experiments requiring the use of teleoperated robots. It is in this context that we have built a teleoperation structure designed to study the problems usually encountered in such experimentations, We have first built a generic simulation model that guided us in the realization of a real teleoperation platform using a terrestrial mobile manipulator. This paper summarizes the results of the simulations we performed and presents the first results we obtained with the real platform.