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Citation
(2003), "Beyond Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robots", Sensor Review, Vol. 23 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/sr.2003.08723cae.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2003, MCB UP Limited
Beyond Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robots
Beyond Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robots
K. Goldberg and R. Siegwart (Eds)The MIT Press2002331 pp.ISBN 0-262-07225-4£30.95
Keywords: Internet, Robots
"Beyond Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robots", provides an unique coverage of systems designed to control physical interactions over the Internet. It describes 18 systems, showing how they were designed, how they function on online, and the engineering challenges encountered.
After an introduction, Part 1 addresses Remote Manipulation. It comprises four chapters, which discuss topics including the Fundamentals of Online Robots; The Mercury Project: A Feasibility Study for Online Robots; and A Distributed Framework for Online Robots.
Part 2, Remote Mobility, includes five chapters discussing Xavier: An Autonomous Mobile Robot on the Web; KhepOnTheWeb: One Year of Access to a mobile Robot on the Internet; RobOnWeb: A Setup with Mobile Mini-Robots on the Web; The Performance of Mobile Robots Controlled through the Web; and Personal Tele-Embodiment.
Handling Latency in Internet-Based Teleoperation; Internet-based Ground Operations for Mars Lander and Rover Missions; and Robust Visualisation for Online Control of Mobile Robots, are amongst the five systems presented in Part 3, Remote Control and Time Delay.
The final part of the book presents Other Novel Applications. These include Computer Networked Robots; One Year of Puma Painting, Online Robots and the Remote Museum Experience; and Telerobotic Remote Handling of Protein Crystals via an Internet Link.
This book is enjoyable to read and is suitable for everyone, from the robotics novice to experts in the field. It covers aspects of machine vision, telematics, and networking.