Development of Teleoperation Software for Wheeled Mobile Robot

Wireless technology in our daily lives is giving a way to more and more inter connected devices. More increasingly innovative applications are being developed for daily usage ranging from simple sensing devices to autonomous robots. With all these extra additions, the burden on wireless technologies such as WLAN and 3G/4G/LTE is leading to the development of new network architectures and protocols. Teleoperation of remote devices are finding their way into common places using those technologies. In this work a teleoperation software was developed to use wireless serial devices to control a remote robot over the network and perform autonomous tasks under the supervision of an operator. The robot is an indoor wheeled mobile robot and operator's device is a computer, both running on Windows OS. This system is similar to a Wireless Sensor Networks with actuators and sensors being on the robot device while the control brain is on a remote computer. The full system has several components like graphics for robot parameters, settings for communications, modes of operations for operator and robot's own localization and safety tasks.