Remote control and monitoring of an autonomous mobile robot

The autonomous guided robots are one of the greatest challenges for the robotics industry, having a considerable impact for current research and future applications. Despite the level of existing technology, at least for now, all the efforts were driven towards other robotic fields and due to this fact, the progress for this zone is not very spectacular. Unlike fixed robots (used in the industrial sphere), the limited amount of resources available for the mobile robot requires a different approach. This paper presents a complete platform that will assure the real-time control and monitoring process for a mobile robot (explorer). The user-robot interaction should be possible for any given location, via the internet. In addition to the teleoperated mode, the solution will also provide a certain level of autonomy for the robot, based on the embedded navigation algorithms.