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...

This paper presents a new approach for tele-fabrication where a physical object is scanned in one location and fabricated in another location. This approach integrates threedimensional (3D) scanning, geometric processing of scanned data, and additive manufacturing technologies. In this paper, we focus on a set of direct geometric processing techniques that enable the tele-fabrication. In this a...

Tele-intensive care unit (ICU) is a care provided to critically ill patients by off-site clinicians using audio, video, and electronic links to leverage technical, informational, and clinical resources. Providing care includes the ability to detect patient's instability or laboratory abnormalities in real-time, collect additional clinical information from or about the patient, order diagnostic ...

We describe a novel approach for unifying computer graphics and computer vision systems, and our initial results in building and using a prototype system. This approach has three significant characteristics: unification of the real and virtual worlds for both input and output, tele-collaboration between remote participants, and interaction between heterogeneous stand-alone 3-dimensional (3D) gr...

This paper illustrates a new approach to the problem of making a logical network resource configuration, adapt to customer utilisation. This is to be achieved through the use of distributed multi-agent based control techniques. The agents have goals derived from different quality metrics, which the network has to provide. In ATM networks a well designed Virtual Path Connection (VPC) overlay net...