Teleworkbench: A Teleoperated Platform for Multi-Robot Experiments

This paper describes the Teleworkbench system, a teleoperated platform for managing experiments in multi-robotics. This testbed is intended as a benchmark tool for managing and analyzing experiments involving one or many minirobots. The Teleworkbench is connected to the internet to allow easy access for remote users located in any part of the world. Three unique features of our testbed are the ability to download a user-defined program for each robot, the support for running 36 robots simultaneously, and the visualization of occurring events during the experiments.

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