Open protocol framework for telepresence robot

Research on telepresence robot has a lot of unexplored potential. Many researches have been done to pursue development on telepresence robot. Most of the researchers usually buy a commercial telepresence robot or build a special purpose one. Usually the needed protocol is developed from scratch. The developed system seldom has interoperability between each other and the process can be costly or lengthy. To expedite research process on telepresence robot development, this paper tries to present an open protocol framework for telepresence robot. The framework will consist of architecture definition, service specification and protocol specification. An implementation of open protocol framework has been simulated. A working hardware prototype that implemented the framework also has been built and tested. The result shows that the open protocol framework is useful and easy to implement. All the implemented protocol functions working properly. The function call of the SPs can be configured according to the needed parameters.