Demo: Untethered Haptic Teleoperation for Nuclear Decommissioning using a Low-Power Wireless Control Technology

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates the feasibility of using a low-power wireless technology called GALLOP for haptic teleoperation in nuclear decommissioning, achieving comparable or better performance than wired and WiFi solutions.

Contribution

It introduces GALLOP, a novel low-power wireless control technology, and validates its effectiveness for real-time haptic teleoperation in a critical industrial scenario.

Findings

GALLOP meets latency and safety requirements for haptic teleoperation.

GALLOP outperforms WiFi-based solutions in the same use-case.

GALLOP can replace wired connections using off-the-shelf Bluetooth 5.0 hardware.

Abstract

Haptic teleoperation is typically realized through wired networking technologies (e.g., Ethernet) which guarantee performance of control loops closed over the communication medium, particularly in terms of latency, jitter, and reliability. This demonstration shows the capability of conducting haptic teleoperation over a novel low-power wireless control technology, called GALLOP, in a nuclear decommissioning use-case. It shows the viability of GALLOP for meeting latency, timeliness, and safety requirements of haptic teleoperation. Evaluation conducted as part of the demonstration reveals that GALLOP, which has been implemented over an off-the-shelf Bluetooth 5.0 chipset, can be a replacement for conventional wired TCP/IP connection, and outperforms WiFi-based wireless solution in same use-case.