NDLI: A Ubiquitous Computing Platform - Affordable Telepresence Robot Design and Applications

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Denojean-Mairet, Marc Tan, Qing Pivot, Frederique Ally, Mohamed
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Online universities are growing and they have to continuously integrate new technologies to provide remote students with ubiquitous learning. How to conduct lab work becomes a great challenge in distance education. Existing methods to deal with lab work in distance education institutions usually require students to travel to the actual university laboratory or the nearest located laboratories or be lent lab kits by the university. This is not perfect and can be costly to the universities and students. One possible novel solution would be to use telepresence robots as avatars for remote lab work. To investigate this novel application of telepresence robots, we built an affordable robot and we provide an application scenario, the affordable telepresence robot for remote lab as a case study. This paper will mainly focus on the design and applications of affordable telepresence robot that provides a ubiquitous computing platform for the remote lab solution in distance education.
Starting Page	793
Ending Page	798
File Size	1196820
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781479979813
DOI	10.1109/CSE.2014.162
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-12-19
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Telepresence Robot Online Education Technology Ubiquitous Computing Robot vision systems Educational institutions Cameras Remote Lab Mobile robots
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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