Real Time Mobile Robot Control on the WEB?
The first 24h/24 WEB based mobile robot remote control is available at http://KhepOnTheWeb.epfl.ch. Every user can access and (if the robot is not controlled by another person) control a REAL mobile robot in a maze, seeing what the robot sees or looking to the maze with an external camera. What you need is a computer connected to Internet and Netscape. Sorry but Microsoft Explorer do NOT accept the video feedback (provided by a Microsoft server…), so you have to use Netscape. This setup has been built at the LAMI (Microcomputing Lab) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL). The robot that you can control is a Khepera equipped with a on board CCD camera. You can look to the images coming from this camera, OR, if you are lost in the maze, look from an external pan-tilt-zoom camera, that you can also control from your computer. This set-up is a demonstrator of what it is possible to do with actual commercial mobile robots and Internet software. All the
