15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
AUGMENTED REALITY TO TELEOPERATE A ROBOT THROUGH THE WEB
Raúl Marín and Pedro J. Sanz
Robotics and Al Lab,
Jaume-I University, Campus Riu Sec, 12071 Castelló (SPAIN)
E-mail: {rmarin, sanzp}@icc.uji.es

The system consists of a multirobot architecture that gives access to both, an educational and industrial robot, through the Internet, by using advanced multimedia and distributed programming tools like Java, Java3D and CORBA. The main effort is focused on the user interface that allows specifying a task into a 3D model and sending commands to the real robot once the operator approves them. This kind of interaction has the ability to consume very little bandwidth in order to perform a remote manipulation through the Internet. The user interface offers Augmented and Virtual Reality possibilities to the users.
Keywords: Telerobotics, Virtual reality, User interfaces, Object recognition, Multimedia
Session slot T-Fr-A13: Telematic Interfaces for Telerobotics/Area code 8g : Telematics