Abstract
The authors have been developing an information-gathering system using mobile robots and wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in underground space in post-disaster environments. In our system, mobile robots carry wireless sensor nodes (SN) and deploy them into the environment. This paper describes an interface design for wireless mobile robot teleoperation via WSNs. In a wireless teleoperation and WSNs deployment, a wireless communication quality measurement is very important. We developed a convenient communication quality measurement method. A teleoperation interfaces including the measurement function using the proposed method was implemented, and an evaluation experiment was conducted. Experimental results using a proposed method are presented.
