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Offline misgTopic starter

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Teleoperation principle design
« on: November 21, 2009, 04:00:24 AM »
Hi,

I'm starting to be ready to make my first teleoperated robot, but I'm a bit overwhelmed and not quite sure how to start. I need to send the telemetry to my PC, so that I know how to control the robot with keyboard input etc. I was thinking of hooking a netbook to the robot and transmitting through it, but it seemed a bit overkill so could you give any hints/guides/tutorials of doing this in the old fashioned way?

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Re: Teleoperation principle design
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2009, 04:28:50 AM »
Hi,

Which oldfashioned way (wired/wireless)?
How much information do you need to convey and at what speed?
One way or two way?

A teleoperated vehicle can be as simple as an R/C-car, or quite complicated if you need a camera constantly showing you the view from the vehicles perspective (telepresence).
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A rather fast and fairly heavy robot with quite large wheels needs what? A lot of power?
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Re: Teleoperation principle design
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2009, 05:13:03 AM »
Wireless two-way (telemetry & control of the vehicle) communication. Initially I'll add just basic sensor input (conditions, tactile, velocity etc.) which shouldn't be more than few dozen kbs. If I would add a video link, how would it change the hardware demands?
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Re: Teleoperation principle design
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2009, 05:41:44 AM »
Couldn't you just use a wireless camera?
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Re: Teleoperation principle design
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2009, 03:35:04 AM »
How do I get the other telemetry data?
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Re: Teleoperation principle design
« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2009, 07:24:57 AM »
There are many RF solutions for uni or bi-direction data. SparkFun has a number of different TX/RX & transceivers available.
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/categories.php
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