The problem of finding a feasible and technically simple tele-existence system for teleoperation of heavy work vehicles is considered with the aid of two experimental test series. Several test persons of different ages and experience were used in experiments in which a basic audio/video tele-existence system with head-tracking was modified into different versions and tested. Conclusions indicat...

The NTC has contracted Chula UniSearch, a consulting arm of Chulalongkorn University (CU), led by Dr. Supavadee Aramvith and Dr. Chaodit Aswakul, to operate the project which is participated by CAT Telecom, Samart Telecom, AIS, NEC, Rohde&Schwarz, FORTH and ADC Communications. NGN technologies such as 3G, Wi-Max, VoIP, SIP server/Soft switch, VoD and FTTH are evaluated in the project along with...

Tele-immersion is a technology that augments your space with real-time 3D projections of remote spaces thus facilitating the interaction of people from different places in virtually the same environment. Tele-immersion combines 3D scene recovery from computer vision, and rendering and interaction from computer graphics. We describe the realtime 3D scene acquisition using a new algorithm for tri...

Computers are ever more thought of to support cooperative work over distances. Thus tele-cooperation tools and environments are needed which bring the meeting and joint-working onto everyone’s desktop. The following paper introduces a framework for such tele-cooperation. The required cooperation-awareness is achieved by a session model around which the building blocks of the entire service are ...

The work describes on-going work at the University of Pisa on the field of tele-laboratories and distance learning. In particular, the group is working at the evolution of existing tele-laboratory experiments in the field of robotics and control into learning units of a self-consistent didactic project. The pick-andplace system described has been designed to provide the set-up for robot arm mot...

Robots are required in many jobs. The jobs related to tele-operation may be very challenging and often require reaching a destination quickly and with minimum collisions. In order to succeed in these jobs, human operators are asked to tele-operate a robot manually through a user interface. The design of a user interface and of the information provided in it, become therefore critical elements f...

This paper presents enhanced remote manipulation of tools for D&D tasks by extending teleoperation with teleautonomy and tele-collaboration. This work builds on a reactive, agent-based control architecture, which is well suited to unstructured and unpredictable environments, and cobot control technology, which implements a virtual fixture that can be used to guide the application of tools with ...

Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) devices in combination with Environmental Control Systems (ECS) offer remarkable benefits for severely and multiple impaired persons. The authors have developed such a combined ECS and AAC system called AUTONOMY. This system was set up at two validation sites based on EIB Twisted Pair and EIB Power Line installations. An intensive evaluation took...

The advent of broadband communications technologies has paved the way to the wide application of innovative, yet resource-demanding electronic healthcare services like real time telemedicine or high bandwidth store and forward transmission of medical data from underserved locations. Satellite broadband communications technologies, such as the Digital Video Broadcasting with Return Channel via S...

Firstly, our proposed software architecture for tele-operated systems such as planetary exploration rovers is introduced. The architecture modularizes each function as a software module. It makes advanced extendibility and flexible task management by connecting with a database via a network. And the database manages the modules. As a result, it improves efficiency in development and operation s...