Index

Table of Contents
Foreword	
Acknowledgments	
Introduction	
Pt. I	Remote Manipulation	
1	Fundamentals of Online Robots	3
2	The Mercury Project: A Feasibility Study for Online Robots	17
3	A Distributed Framework for Online Robots	37
4	Online Robots	61
Pt. II	Remote Mobility	
5	Xavier: An Autonomous Mobile Robot on the Web	81
6	KhepOnTheWeb: One Year of Access to a Mobile Robot on the Internet	99
7	RobOnWeb: A Setup with Mobile Mini-Robots on the Web	117
8	The Performance of Mobile Robots Controlled through the Web	137
9	Personal Tele-Embodiment	155
Pt. III	Remote Control and Time Delay	
10	Handling Latency in Internet-Based Teleoperation	171
11	Toward Bilateral Internet Teleoperation	193
12	VISIT: A Teleoperation System via the Computer Network	215
13	Internet-based Ground Operations for Mars Lander and Rover Missions	227
14	Robust Visualization for Online Control of Mobile Robots	241
Pt. IV	Other Novel Applications	
15	Computer Networked Robotics	261
16	One Year of Puma Painting	277
17	Online Robots and the Remote Museum Experience	295
18	Telerobotic Remote Handling of Protein Crystals via an Internet Link	307
Index	323