Teleoperation Cloud Industrial Robot using XMPP Protocol

Abstract

Teleoperation is an operation needed to complete a variety of robot tasks in dangerous and difficult-to-reach environments. In the industrial world, teleoperation robots can be used to help humans complete dangerous tasks such as grasping and lifting in the nuclear industry. Controlling industrial robots can be done remotely via the Internet. However, communication still needs to be improved so that it can achieve low latency, be safe, high reliability, and be interoperable. This study proposes the use of the XMPP protocol to handle data interactions between robots and cloud platform. We modified the Robot Operating System (ROS) package by adding a special node that bridges communication using the XMPP protocol. We compare the performance of MQTT with the HTTP protocol. The test results show that the MQTT latency time is better than HTTP. The results of this study can be used in robot teleoperation operations in various industries that consider aspects of communication quality.