HIGHROBOT: telerobotics in the Internet

Abstract

HIGHROBOT is an open workstation based robot control which has full access to the Internet and its Web-technologies. Here, the usage of Java-applets offers new applications in telerobotics. Additionally, the HIGHROBOT system offers access to high speed networks. This leads to a vast field of new applications which cannot be found in traditional control systems. In this paper we present a prototype controller implementation for a manipulator controlled via the Internet. The robot arm can be controlled running a Java applet on a remote system. Our object oriented software architecture is based on the design of a general application independent server concept that can be used in distributed object computing.