Sharing cooperative mobile robots through the Internet

Using technologies such as Web browser-based programming languages and multimedia tools, the authors are developing a sophisticated control environment for use as a World Wide Web front-end to intelligent control systems. Cooperative behaviour will be remotely facilitated through a two-way transferral of data-status information from the vehicles to the operator, and commands/parameters from the operator to the vehicles. This paper describes the background and context, the proposed solution at the concept level, and issues concerned with implementation.