BIDIRECTIONALITY IN IP BASED TELEOPERATION

The article proposes a new transport scheme for teleoperation or NCS (Networked Control System) data flows via the Internet. The proposed scheme takes advantage of the bidirectionality of the control loop and the small size of the teleoperation supermedia data, to improve the throughput and efficiency of the transmission; it aims to serve as a network contribution to the stability control efforts of teleoperation systems with variable delays, by increasing the bandwidth availability maintaining TCPFriendness, Fairness and Best Effort requirements in Internet. In this paper we focus on the preliminary presentation of the scheme and simulation studies.

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