Development of internet-based telerobotics

Abstract

The internet is a very fast evolving new technology, allowing people to
electronically connect places that are thousands of miles apart. The internet serves
mainly for information exchange. However since the launch of the first robots on the
Internet in 1994, an enormous effort has been undertaken by hundreds of researchers
to push this technology. Quite a number of designs and applications of the internetbased
telerobotic system have been implemented and launched on the internet. Some
of the telerobotic systems are designed for blocks manipulation, paint painting and
gardening. There has been much effort taken by UTM to be one of the main players
in this area for the last few years. A lot of improvement has been achieved in the
internet-based telerobotics since the first project launched in 1994. Thus, the project
is carried out to achieve the objectives as: to study the latest finding in the internetbased
telerobotics especially the problems faced as well as the solutions; to study the
existing project especially the problems faced; to identify the appropriate technology
to improve the existing project; to design a new telerobotic system; and, to
implement the new telerobotic system. Based on the findings, the task-oriented
telerobotic system has been developed. In the system developed, the user need only
to specify the task to be done by the robot and then the system will plan the path of
the robot movement to complete the task. The system is found to be more user
friendly, reliable, the safety of the working objects and the robot are well protected.