A Distributed Software Architecture for Collaborative Teleoperation based on a VR Platform and Web Application Interoperability

TL;DR

This paper presents an enhanced distributed architecture enabling heterogeneous collaborative teleoperation using VR and web platforms, allowing multiple mobile devices to control robots simultaneously for improved remote task execution.

Contribution

It introduces a unified system that integrates VR and web applications for collaborative teleoperation, overcoming previous incompatibilities and enabling multi-platform robot control.

Findings

Enables simultaneous control of robots via VR and web platforms.

Supports heterogeneous collaboration across different mobile devices.

Improves safety and efficiency in remote robot operation.

Abstract

Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality can provide to a Human Operator (HO) a real help to complete complex tasks, such as robot teleoperation and cooperative teleassistance. Using appropriate augmentations, the HO can interact faster, safer and easier with the remote real world. In this paper, we present an extension of an existing distributed software and network architecture for collaborative teleoperation based on networked human-scaled mixed reality and mobile platform. The first teleoperation system was composed by a VR application and a Web application. However the 2 systems cannot be used together and it is impossible to control a distant robot simultaneously. Our goal is to update the teleoperation system to permit a heterogeneous collaborative teleoperation between the 2 platforms. An important feature of this interface is based on different Mobile platforms to control one or many robots.