Teleoperation of a mobile robot through the Internet

Abstract

Nowadays, teleoperation is being applied in several areas. For example, in virtual surgery and teleoperation of satellites and robots. On the other hand, Internet is the great world net of heterogeneous computers that is in constant evolution since its creation, in the 60's. New technologies appear for the "Net" everyday. One of the largest revolutions in this area is the Java language. Thus, it is possible to join Teleoperation and Internet in order to control a robot from any computer linked to the global net. This work presents a quite simple interface for robot teleoperation: the keyboard keys move the robot while images generated by the camera onboard the robot are sent to the navigator.