Control and applications of smart projector based tele-presence robot

To overcome the tedium of conventional tele-presence systems that are mainly based on `see and talk' between remote users, we developed a novel tele-presence system that has a camera-projector module at both sides: local and remote sides. This symmetric camera-projector module makes the mutual interactions more interactive and broadens feasible communication space out of the monitor. This paper presents some preliminary results and special features of the system that are differentiated from the conventional tele-presence systems.