New design of Robotics Remote lab

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel design for a Robotics Remote Laboratory that separates path planning from control algorithms using light obstacles, enhancing flexibility and control in robot experiments.

Contribution

It proposes a new RRL architecture with independent path planning via light obstacles, supported by hardware and software components, and includes a web interface with reservation and simulation features.

Findings

Separated path planning from control algorithms.

Implemented a light obstacle system for path planning.

Developed a web-based interface with reservation and simulation.

Abstract

The Robotic Remote Laboratory controls the Robot labs via the Internet and applies the Robot experiment in easy and advanced way. If we want to enhance the RRL system, we must study requirements of the Robot experiment in a deeply way. One of key requirements of the Robot experiment is the Control algorithm that includes all important activities to affect the Robot; one of them relates the path or obstacle. Our goal is to produce a new design of the RRL includes a new treatment to the Control algorithm depends on isolation one of the Control algorithm's activities that relates the paths in a separated algorithm, i.e., design the (Path planning algorithm) is independent of the original Control algorithm. This aim can be achieved by depending on the light to produce the Light obstacle. To apply the Light obstacle, we need to hardware (Light control server and Light arms) and soft ware (path planning algorithm).The NXT 2.0 Robot will sense the Light obstacle depending on the Light sensor of it. The new design has two servers, one for the path (Light control server) and other for the other activities of the Control algorithm (Robot control server).The website of the new design includes three main parts (Lab Reservation, Open Lab, Download Simulation).We proposed a set of scenarios for organizing the reservation of the Remote Lab. Additionally, we developed an appropriate software to simulate the Robot and to practice it before usage the Remote lab.