Ken Taylor Controlling robots over the Internet enables distributed multiplatform communication and cooperation in executing robotic tasks. In this paper we introduce a communications framework that allows multiple peers to cooperate to produce a fully functional, flexible and extendible robotic system.
Peers communicate with other peers by passing messages in channels through a central router.
The router allows peers to subscribe and unsubscribe to these channels. The framework has been used to implement Internet control of a six degree of freedom robot. The robot control interface runs as a Java applet within a web browser. The Web's Top Robotics H. Hirukawa and I. Hara This paper investigates the WWW system as an infrastructure of robotic systems, from the viewpoints of human interface, communication protocol and globally distributed system, and presents how to map robotic systems onto the WWW system. We call the concept the web top robotics.