An RPG-like campus tour service using remote control robots

Abstract

In recent years, there are great attentions to realworld data services where the Internet services, ubiquitous computing and robot services are integrated. In order to spread such services widely, standardized platforms and wide variety of applications are required. In this paper, we propose a Remote Open Campus System (ROCS) which provides a campus tour service by controlling a robot at a campus through the Internet. ROCS maps a real world campus environment to a virtual world, that is, reflecting real views captured by a robot to a virtual campus created by itself. For that, ROCS functions are created by using RSNP (Robot Service Network Protocol), which is a protocol specification for robot services.