REALabs-BOT: a WebLab in Mobile Robotics Over High Speed Networks

This paper presents the architecture and implementation of REALabs-BOT, a WebLab in mobile robotics. REALabs-BOT was designed to run over high speed networks. As such, mobile robotics experiments run on the user's computer and control the robots over the network and in real time. The proposal of the WebLab is to let the student to develop his/her robotic algorithm in Java or Javascript, to tune and evaluate the algorithm in a simulated environment, and finally to run exactly the same algorithm to drive the real robots. REALabs-BOT maintains a repository of robotic experiments for demonstration purposes and as starting point for new experiments. The WebLab also supports secure interaction from multiple users located at different sites.