A multithreaded distributed telerobotic framework

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 558-566

  Al Mouhamed, Mayez A ^a   Toker, Onur ^b   Iqbal, Asif ^c  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b FATIH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed application framework; Man machine interface; Reflected force feedback; Telerobotics; Three dimensional (3 D) visualization

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER DEBUGGING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; DATA TRANSFER; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED APPLICATION FRAMEWORK; REFLECTED FORCE FEEDBACK; TELEROBOTICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL VISUALIZATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33750415974     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2006.882986     Document Type: Article

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