05-07-2012, 04:03 PM
A Reconfigurable Multi-Touch Remote Control System for Teleoperated Robots
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INTRODUCTION:
Mobile robots are gaining increasing attention in the “Internet of Things” (IoT). Mobile robots have a wide range of applications: manufacturing, surveillance, disaster response support, home automation, and so forth. In all these cases, a completely autonomous system would be highly desirable, but its design is particularly challenging or even not feasible yet. Therefore, robots have to be manually controlled by a human operator when required.
In addition, many robots perform a specialized work that is not easily manageable using standard input controls (e.g. mouse, joystick, keyboard, and other “standard” input devices). In the last years, it has been shown that there is a need to introduce more intuitive gesture-based input devices to allow an operator to effectively control one or more robots. From the later point a “Multi-Touch gesture interfaces for Robot concept” were decided to implement.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
In the Multi-Touch Gesture interfacing systems, the user can interact with robots using touch and hand gestures. Currently, available robot actions comprise acceleration, deceleration/reverse, and emergency stop, turn left/right. Each of these actions can be mapped to any of the following gestures: single and multiple taps, clockwise and counterclockwise rotations, device tilt and inclinations. Meanwhile, by touching a point in the image shown by the handheld device the robot will follow the selected target i.e., moves left/right, get forward/reverse and stop.
The above two scheme will be done through Touch and accelerometer sensors, in addition to this ZigBee / WiFi Communications are pooled to make a enhance the mobility function of robots.
[attachment=26896]
INTRODUCTION:
Mobile robots are gaining increasing attention in the “Internet of Things” (IoT). Mobile robots have a wide range of applications: manufacturing, surveillance, disaster response support, home automation, and so forth. In all these cases, a completely autonomous system would be highly desirable, but its design is particularly challenging or even not feasible yet. Therefore, robots have to be manually controlled by a human operator when required.
In addition, many robots perform a specialized work that is not easily manageable using standard input controls (e.g. mouse, joystick, keyboard, and other “standard” input devices). In the last years, it has been shown that there is a need to introduce more intuitive gesture-based input devices to allow an operator to effectively control one or more robots. From the later point a “Multi-Touch gesture interfaces for Robot concept” were decided to implement.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
In the Multi-Touch Gesture interfacing systems, the user can interact with robots using touch and hand gestures. Currently, available robot actions comprise acceleration, deceleration/reverse, and emergency stop, turn left/right. Each of these actions can be mapped to any of the following gestures: single and multiple taps, clockwise and counterclockwise rotations, device tilt and inclinations. Meanwhile, by touching a point in the image shown by the handheld device the robot will follow the selected target i.e., moves left/right, get forward/reverse and stop.
The above two scheme will be done through Touch and accelerometer sensors, in addition to this ZigBee / WiFi Communications are pooled to make a enhance the mobility function of robots.