Use Case Evaluation of a Cloud Robotics Teleoperation System (Short Paper)

The paper describes a generic Cloud Robotics teleoperation system which allows to control in real-time a robot (connected with a 4G network) having its video stream as feedback. The proposed system relies on the Azure Cloud Platform and on recent web technologies. Particularly, we present an use case experiment in which an operator in Slovakia controls a robot situated in Italy in order to evaluate its realtime feasibility. We test the system to assess its performances providing the throughput value of the communication and the average delay between consecutive received packets on both robot and teleoperation side. Additionally, regarding the video streaming, we test several packet sizes to establish a suitable image quality. The results show how the chosen technology allows to have real-time performances in terms of video and velocity commands streaming.