Intelligent autonomous mobile robot control through the Internet

With rapid growth of computer technology, Internet-based teleoperation of robotic systems has created new opportunities in resources sharing, long-distance learning, and remote experimentation. This paper presents a basic architecture and its functional components for remote control of robotic systems. A variety of control modes for existing robotic systems were surveyed and the Internet transmission latency was discussed. An illustrative application was used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed architecture and the control scheme. Experimental results clearly indicate that the proposed behavior control mode is superior to direct control mode in terms of efficiency, operating environment, complex task handling, and control capability.