Graphics enhanced version of this site

Operator Interfaces and Network-Based Participation for Dante II
T.W. Fong, H. Pangels, D. Wettergreen, E. Nygren, B. Hine, P. Hontalas, and C. Fedor
SAE 25th International Conference on Environmental Systems, July, 1995.

Jump to: Download | Abstract | Notes | Text Reference | BibTeX Reference

Adobe portable document format (pdf) [502 KB]

Copyright notice: This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. These works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.

Dante II, an eight-legged walking robot developed by the Dante project, explored the active volcanic crater of Mount Spurr in July 1994. In this paper, we describe the operator interfaces and the network-based participation methods used during the Dante II mission. Both virtual environment and multi-modal operator interfaces provided mission support for supervised control of Dante II. Network-based participation methods including message communications, satellite transmission, and a WorldWideWeb server enabled remote science and public interaction. We believe that these human-machine interfaces represent a significant advance in robotic technologies for exploration.

Associated center: FRC
Associated project: Dante II

T.W. Fong, H. Pangels, D. Wettergreen, E. Nygren, B. Hine, P. Hontalas, and C. Fedor, "Operator Interfaces and Network-Based Participation for Dante II," SAE 25th International Conference on Environmental Systems, July, 1995.

@inproceedings{Fong_1995_2795,
   author = "Terrence W Fong and Henning Pangels and David Wettergreen and E. Nygren and B. Hine and P. Hontalas and C. Fedor",
   title = "Operator Interfaces and Network-Based Participation for Dante II",
   booktitle = "SAE 25th International Conference on Environmental Systems",
   month = "July",
   year = "1995"
}