2000 Volume 5 Issue 2 Pages 881-889
R-Cubed (R^3: Real-time Remote Robotics) is the concept and technology for people to telexist anywhere in the world by controlling remote robots as his avatars in real time base through the network. An R-Cubed system is supposed to allow people to control remote robots from terminals installed on homes, offices, or any public booths connected to Internet or other dedicated networks. In this paper some efforts devoted to the design of R-Cubed systems are shown, including the specification of RCML (R-Cubed Manipulation Language) that describes remote environments and robot characteristics, and RCTP (R-Cubed Transfer Protocol) that is in charge of network communication between users and robots in real time base. Finally an experimental implementation example and evaluation to the behavior of this system is reported.
