Title
Teleoperation of a platoon of distributed wheeled mobile robots with predictive display.
Abstract
We propose a novel teleoperation framework for multiple distributed non-holonomic mobile robots (WMR), each equipped with onboard sensing and computing using peer-to-peer communication. One of the WMRs is designated as the leader with the first-person view camera and SLAM, while the other WMRs maintain a certain desired formation relative to their respective fore-running WMR in a distributed manner. For this, we first utilize nonholonomic passive decomposition to split the platoon kinematics into that of the formation-keeping aspect and the collective tele-driving aspect. We then design the controls for these two aspects individually and distribute them into each WMR while incorporating their nonholonomic constraint and distribution requirement. We also propose a novel predictive display, which, by providing the user with the estimated current and predicted future pose of the platoon and future possibility of collision while incorporating the uncertainty inherent to the distribution, can significantly enhance the tele-driving performance. Experiments and user study are also performed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/s10514-018-9747-0
Auton. Robots
Keywords
Field
DocType
Distributed robots, Nonholonomic constraint, Predictive display, Teleoperation
Teleoperation,Kinematics,Platoon,Simulation,Computer science,Control engineering,Collision,Nonholonomic system,Mobile robot
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
42
8
0929-5593
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
24
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
ChangSu Ha1394.41
Jaemin Yoon202.03
Changu Kim301.01
Yonghan Lee432.88
Seongjin Kwon500.34
Dongjun Lee685584.67