Development of a stereo vision system for remotely operated robots: A control and video streaming architecture

VECIMS 2008 - IEEE Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 14-19

  Amanatiadis, A ^a   Gasteratos, A ^a   Georgoulas, C ^a   Kotoulas, L ^a   Andreadis, I ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Human machine interaction; Open source programming; Real time remote control; Telerobotic vision

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STREAMING; CAMERAS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER VISION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); OPEN SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; VIDEO STREAMING; VIDEOTEX; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

FLEXIBLE ARCHITECTURES; FOUR-DEGREES-OF-FREEDOM; HEAD CONTROL; HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY; HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LOW-LATENCY; MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN-SOURCE LIBRARIES; OPEN-SOURCE PROGRAMMING; REAL-TIME OPERATING SYSTEMS; REAL-TIME REMOTE CONTROL; REAL-TIME REQUIREMENTS; STEREO HEAD; STEREO VIDEO; STEREO VISION SYSTEMS; TELE-OPERATED ROBOTS; TELEROBOTIC VISION; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

STEREO VISION;

EID: 51849147063     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592745     Document Type: Conference Paper

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