Teleoperation

Teleoperation allows a human operator to remotely control a robot when autonomous operation is not sufficient or direct intervention is impractical. Our research investigates immersive teleoperation of autonomous mobile robots, focusing on the real-time transmission of 3D sensory information such as point clouds to remote operators using VR headsets. Particular attention is devoted to adaptive streaming, compression and bandwidth-aware techniques that provide high situational awareness while accounting for limited on-board computational resources and changing network conditions.