Remote control application for “servosila engineer” on android mobile devices

Abstract

Even though modern mobile robots’ autonomous navigation capabilities rapidly increase, teleoperation mode is still an important tool, especially in critical domains like rescue or military robotics. This paper presents Android OS based teleoperator control tool for Russian crawler robot Servosila Engineer. We changed the way of data exchange between a robot and its operator, which allows using Wi-Fi data standards in order to simply data transfer from OCU (Operator Control Unit) process to vehicle process. Our application provides robot remote control and video data transfer from robot onboard cameras.