An end-to-end transmission architecture for the remote control of robots over IP networks

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 560-570

  Liu, Peter X ^a   Meng, Max Q H ^b   Liu, Polley R ^b   Yang, Simon X ^c  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data transmission; Internet; Network protocol; Remote control; Robots

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; REMOTE CONTROL;

CONGESTION DETERMINATION; END-TO-END TRANSMISSION ARCHITECTURE; IP NETWORKS; REMOTE CONTROL ALGORITHMS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 28044472479     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2005.856110     Document Type: Article

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