A Novel Communication Architecture and Control System for TeleBot: A Multi-Modal Telepresence Robot for Disabled Officers

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Published Nov 1, 2016
https://doi.org/10.47164/ijngc.v7i3.120
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Volume 7, Issue 3, November 2016

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Sevugarajan Sundarapandian
Acharya Institute of Technology, India
Jong-Hoon Kim
Consultant, South Korea
Shadeh Ferris-Francis
Florida International University
Jerry Miller
Florida International University
Nagarajan Prabakar
Florida International University
Christopher Charters
University of Florida, USA
Hunter Michko
Florida International University

Abstract

There is an incredible need to help disabled veterans and police officers to remotely perform patrolling and law enforcement duties. Currently a disabled officer is medically retired following a severe duty related injury, depriving the individual of a career and the talent of an experienced officer in his/her prime. This results in billions of dollars of wasted talents and resources. This paper presents a detailed development and analysis of a telepresence robot designated as TeleBot# to assess how it can be used to help disabled officers return to active duty. The principal contribution of this paper comprises of robust communication architecture for efficient human interaction with the robot that almost resembles a law enforcement officer and capable of receiving commands that are issued by a disabled officer from a remote location. Two high definition cameras in the head assembly of TeleBot wirelessly transmit live video stream of the TeleBots visual field to the remote operator wearing a virtual reality based stereoscopic display. Additionally, a voice recognition system enables the TeleBot to greet people and accept voice based commands from the operator. The user-friendly software embedded on the system provides seamless communication between the officer at a remote location and the public through TeleBot. The striking factor of this design is affordability in terms of cost.

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Sevugarajan Sundarapandian, Jong-Hoon Kim, Shadeh Ferris-Francis, Jerry Miller, Nagarajan Prabakar, Christopher Charters, & Hunter Michko. (2016). A Novel Communication Architecture and Control System for TeleBot: A Multi-Modal Telepresence Robot for Disabled Officers. International Journal of Next-Generation Computing, 7(3), 222–237. https://doi.org/10.47164/ijngc.v7i3.120
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