Design and Development of a Robotic Teleoperation System using Duplex WebSockets suitable for Variable Bandwidth Networks

This paper addresses the development of a new teleoperation framework for remote robotics. The status of existing robotic teleoperation systems is introduced, with emphasis on several technological drawbacks and is followed by a description of the design, development and implementation of a new framework based on bleeding edge technologies in internet protocols and software engineering related to robotics. As a first implementation, an update of an existing tele-robotics laboratory is in progress aiming round-the-clock networked access, suited for even the most demanding online learning platforms. A comparison between the current and previous teleoperation system is also published verifying the implemented framework.