Remote experiments with mobile-robot hardware via internet at limited link capacity

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4798-4805

  Zeiger, Florian ^a   Schmidt, Marco ^a   Schilling, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Communication constraints; Distance learning; Hardware experiments; Mobile robots; Remote laboratory; Tele experiments.; Teleeducation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CONSTRAINTS; HARDWARE EXPERIMENTS; REMOTE LABORATORIES; TELE-EDUCATION; TELE-EXPERIMENTS.;

COMMUNICATION; DISTANCE EDUCATION; INTERNET; MOBILE ROBOTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77956605589     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2027898     Document Type: Article

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