Telerobotics experiments via Internet
Safaric, R.; Debevc, M.; Parkin, R.M.; Uran, S.
Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
Volume 48, Issue 2, Apr 2001 Page(s):424 - 431
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/41.915422
Summary:Many enterprises experience difficulty in training people to work
with expensive equipment, which is needed for carrying out profitable
work tasks (e.g., production line robots). Similar problems are found
when work is of a complex and safety-critical nature (e.g., nuclear
environments, explosive placement, surgery). This paper describes a
method of education and training involving offline usage of virtual
environments for task planning. When tasks are developed to the
satisfaction of the trainee, they are exported to remote physical
hardware, via the Internet, for real-world execution. Development of the
system and the training experiments is discussed, along with some of the
issues raised for telerobotics and solutions to the problem of detecting
collisions in the virtual world. The approach has been shown to be
viable and increases the education and training possibilities for key
workers while maintaining a low cost of ownership. The downtime of
mission-critical equipment is minimized while the gaining of valuable
experience is maximized
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