Tele-operation of robot partners through iPod touche

This paper deals with human interface for iPod touch used for the tele-operation of robot partners. We develop a tele-operation system based on touch interface of iPod touch. The environmental information is measured through the sensor network, and is stored in the remote host computer. The iPod touch accesses the environment information through wireless LAN, and sends the control outputs to the partner robots. Therefore, we propose a touch interface based on gesture navigation in order to access the environmental information and to control robot. Finally, we show several experimental results of the proposed method, and discuss the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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