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The control of robots over the Internet requires coordination of control commands to the remote device and visual feedback to the remote user. We describe a framework to support collaborative interactive control of small Internet-based robots exploiting a number of interaction metaphors. The framework addresses the concerns of synchronization of the user’s representation of the environment and the remote environment, and provides for dynamic event management through a number of software agents. A multi-modal VRML-based architecture is described which provides remote users with an improved sense of telepresence over purely video-based solutions.
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McNeill, M., Hutton, A. (2001). Interactive Control of Robots on the Internet. In: Earnshaw, R., Vince, J. (eds) Digital Content Creation. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0293-9_11
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