Haptic teleoperation of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles over the internet

Dongjun Lee, Antonio Franchi, Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Hyoung Il Son, Heinrich H. Bulthoff
2011 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation  
We propose a novel haptic teleoperation control framework for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the Internet, consisting of the three control layers: 1) UAV control layer, where each UAV is abstracted by, and is controlled to follow the trajectory of, its own kinematic virtual point (VP); 2) VP control layer, which modulates each VP's motion according to the teleoperation commands and local artificial potentials (for inter-VP/VP-obstacle collision avoidance and inter-VP connectivity
more » ... preservation); and 3) teleoperation layer, through which a remote human user can command all (or some) of the VPs' velocity while haptically perceiving the state of all (or some) of the UAVs over the Internet. Masterpassivity/slave-stability and some asymptotic performance measures are proved. Semi-experiment results are presented to validate the theory.
doi:10.1109/icra.2011.5979993 dblp:conf/icra/LeeFGSB11 fatcat:y4ufadbejjh5hc5hcl4fqshale