Teleoperation System of Internet-Based Multi-Operator Multi-Mobile-Manipulator

Abstract

A teleoperation system of Internet-based Multi-Operator Multi-Mobile-Manipulator is proposed in this paper. The system consists of master sides and slave side, which has the characteristics of mobility, cooperation, distribution, fault tolerance, redundancy etc.. In master sides, with the aid of Distributed Virtual Environment and multi-video image, operators use the haptic interface device to control the remote robots via Internet. The 9-DOF mobile-manipulators which combine the mobility of the omnidirectional mobile plat and the manipulability of the manipulator are located in the slave side. Modules of ultrasonic location and ultrasonic/infrared distance measurement are arranged on the mobile-manipulators, and six-axis force sensors are fixed on the wrist of mobile-manipulators. Six video cameras are installed in slave side to provide the operators multi-video image. A network server collects the information of the sensors by WLAN and sends them to operators through net. With the aid of real-time multi-video image and feedbacks, operators could control the robots to complete the task. Finally, the effectiveness of the teleoperation system is illustrated by experiments that the operators control the robots to complete the role of delivering and transporting via Internet, and achieve loose coordination, mobile tight coordination and operated tight coordination teleoperation.