Not only are these systems often expensive to build, but they are time consuming to deploy, require significant training and are cumbersome to use. Thus, there is strong motivation to develop alternative approaches to make remote driving easier and more productive. PdaDriver uses multiple control modes, sensor fusion displays, and safeguarded teleoperation to make remote driving fast and efficient. This mode displays live images from a camera located on the robot. The user can pan and tilt the camera by clicking in the grey camera control box.
Yellow lines shown on the image indicate the projected horizon line and robot width.
The user drives the robot by clicking a series of waypoints on the image and then pressing the go button. As the robot moves from point to point, the motion status bar displays the robot's progress. As in the video mode, the user drives the robot by clicking a series of waypoints on the image and then pressing the go button. As the robot moves, the motion status bar displays the robot's progress. The user commands translation by clicking on the vertical axis.