15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
COMPLEX BEHAVIORS OF TELEOPERATED ROBOTIS
Catalin Buiu1, Ioan Dumitrache1, Florin Mihai2
1 -Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
“Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania
2 -Department of Electrical Measurements,
“Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania
e-mail: cata@ics.pub.ro

There has been much interest lately in the area of Internet-based control and robotics education. This is needed because the real plants and robots are very expensive to buy. This paper presents a series of experiments in autonomous collective robotics that are taken by students in control engineering and cognitive science. They allow the student to test different control algorithms from a remote location. Moreover, it is now possible to control a team of two robots connected to the same remote computer. Different complex, global behaviors are generated from simple individual behaviors.
Keywords: remote control, telerobotics, education, agents
Session slot T-Th-E05: Control Education II/Area code 6a : Control Education