Designing Telerobotic Systems as Distributed CORBA-Based Applications

Virtual laboratories and on-line robots are examples of distributed telerobotic systems based on emerging Internet technologies. Building these applications from scratch is a very demanding effort because they must satisfy a wide set of requirements, arising from both the distributed systems domain, e.g. location transparency and multiplatform interoperability, and the telerobotic domain, e.g. guaranteed quality of service, real-time operation, dynamic reconfigurability, concurrent or collaborative interaction among distributed sites. For these systems exploitation of an Object Oriented standard middleware like CORBA should be very effective, thanks to its well known features and services and its recent enhancements (Real-Time CORBA, AMI).

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