The Internet-based UJI tele-lab: system architecture

Abstract

In this paper, we present the system architecture that has been used in order to implement a whole Internet-based tele-laboratory, which allows researchers and students to program remotely an online robot. In fact, the challenge has been demonstrating that remote programming combined with an advanced multimedia user interface for remote control is very convenient, flexible and profitable for the design of the tele-laboratory. In fact, the contribution consist of designing a system architecture that permits to any external program (i.e. remote experiment, speech recognition module, etc.) to have access to almost every feature of the already existing "UJI online robot" (i.e. cameras, object recognition, robot control, etc.) [R. Martin, et al., May 2002].