Augmented Reality Used for Robot Remote Control in Educational Laboratories

Abstract:

One of the main aspects of teaching in engineering education, including robotics engineering, is to experiment. Due to the complexity of the equipment involved, robotics research is expensive, thus limiting the access of researchers/students to perform activities of this kind. One possibility to access these devices is to share them with other universities and research centers from different locations in the world. The research team was focused on building a telerobotic educational lab operated via the web so that interested Internet users should be able – using augmented reality – to manipulate and share with other users the robot control. In this paper the specificity of the robot’s environment is the existence of a grid, drawn on the telerobotic working space.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 658)
• Pages: 672-677
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.658.672
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Ildiko Pasc, Lehel Csokmai, Florin Popentiu-Vladicescu, Radu Tarca*
• Keywords: Augmented Reality, Educational Laboratories, Remote Control, Robot

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