A reusable framework for Web-based teleoperation

The advent of the World Wide Web presents an opportunity for a wide audience to make use of telemanipulation. Unfortunately, current efforts in Web-based telemanipulation are primarily undertaken by individual groups and lead to a plethora of specific solutions, instead of a general, reusable framework. Because of this, any groups seeking to enter into this field must-spend a large-amount of time building the interfaces necessary for remote monitoring and manipulation. Our proposed solution to this problem is to build a general framework of Java-based components that allow researchers to focus on their particular applications instead of building the infrastructure for Web interaction themselves. These components-only require researchers to build an interface to our framework, instead of implementing a complete end-to-end solution. This framework is designed to enable the manipulation of simple to medium complexity devices via the World Wide Web. Example application domains include small robotic vehicles and robotic arms.