Operator Interfaces and Network-Based Participation for Dante II - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Operator Interfaces and Network-Based Participation for Dante II

Terrence W. Fong, Henning Pangels, David Wettergreen, E. Nygren, B. Hine, P. Hontalas, and C. Fedor
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SAE 25th International Conference on Environmental Systems, pp. 131 - 137, July, 1995

Abstract

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.

BibTeX

@conference{Fong-1995-13921,
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 = {Proceedings of SAE 25th International Conference on Environmental Systems},
year = {1995},
month = {July},
pages = {131 - 137},
}