Abstract
This paper presents a method for human-computer cooperative control of a mobile robot. As long as a priori information given to the computer is accurate, the computer controls the mobile robot by following working commands programmed in advance. When it is necessary for the human operator to correct the motion of the robot because of some changes of the environment, the human operator intervenes in computer operation to reduce the speed of robot and change the course of locomotion by moving the joystick. Through some actual trials in a PWS mobile robot, the proposed method is proven to be efficient in the operation of a mobile robot with simplicities of commands and flexibility of human operators.
