15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
HAPTIC INTERFACES FOR REMOTE CONTROL OF MOBILE ROBOTS
Hubert Roth* Klaus Schilling** Otto J. Rösch*
* ) University of Siegen, Hölderlinstr. 3, 57068 Siegen, Germany
hubert.roth@uni-siegen.de, otto.roesch@uni-siegen.de
** ) University of Applied Sciences FH Ravensburg-Weingarten
Doggenriedstrasse, 88250 Weingarten, Germany
schi@ars.fh-weingarten.de

Force feedback from a mobile robot to a remote control enlarges the sensoric capabilities of standard teleoperation approaches. In existing applications images and sensor data are displayed to the remote user. With additional force feedback, not only visual but also haptic interfaces are used to provide input to the teleoperator in order to improve remote control performances. This paper describes the hard- and software implementation for controlling a mobile robot over the Internet by the use of a force feedback joystick.
Keywords: Remote Control, Mobile Robots, Force Feedback, Sensors, Distributed Control
Session slot T-Tu-E21: Posters of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Systems/Area code 8g : Telematics