15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
QOS BASED CONTROL OF TELEOPERATION VIA INTERNET
Wai-keung Fung* Ning Xi* Wang-tai Lo** Yun-hui Liu**
* Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, U.S.A
** Department of Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong

This paper presents an QoS (quality of service) based control system of teleoperation via the Internet. Quality of service on the Internet refers to a set of quality requirements on the performance of the data transmission necessary to achieve the required functionality of an application. The quality of data transmission via the Internet is measured or reflected by a set of QoS parameters. Since the stability of the teleoperation system is sensitive to the data transmission quality of the Internet, it is important to adjust the control strategy of robot systems in teleoperation based on the quality (reflected by measured QoS parameters) of the network for data transmission. One of the widely used QoS parameters is network delay. This paper proposes a robot controller gains adjustment scheme based on QoS parameters (network delay) measured using a quadratic programming approach. Moreover, a teleoperation experiment is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller gains adjustment scheme.
Keywords: Quality of Service, Teleoperation, Round-trip Time, Quadratic Programming
Session slot T-We-M20: Control Architectures for Advanced Cooperation in Robotics/Area code 1d : Robotics