E-Learning: Case Studies in Web-Controlled Devices and Remote Manipulation

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E-Learning Case Studies in Web-Controlled
Devices and Remote Manipulation

• December 2001
• by Tarek Sobh, Raul Mihali, Puneet Batra, Amit
  Singh, Sudip Pathak, Tomas Vitulskis, Andrew Rosca

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Distance Learning As an Education System

• The e-learning choice
• Impact of technology / internet
• Education cost reduction
• International students
• Faculty / Campus-facilities / Course-schedules
  no longer boundaries

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Projects Implemented Towards DL Education

• Mobile Robot Controlled by a Phone
• Internet Based Software Library for the SIR-1
  Serial Port Controlled Robot
• Internet Based Computer Vision Framework For
  Security, Surveillance And Tracking Applications
• Internet Controlled Satellite Transponder (Using
  A Remotely Controlled Robotic Manipulator)

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Mobile Robot Controlled by a Phone
An application of a Robot with a phonechip
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Mobile Robot Controlled by a Phone

• Ring Detect and Phone Line Connection
• Dual Tone Multi Frequency (DTMF) Decoder
• Clock Division Module
• Ring Detect Module
• Motor Control Module
• Robot Control Module

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Mobile Robot Controlled by a Phone
PHONEBOT Basic Block Diagram
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Internet Based Software Library for the SIR-1
Serial Port Controlled Robot

• Web Based Control / Remote Automation
• API functions for SIR-1 Remote Manipulation
  direct / inverse kinematics, multiple
  simultaneous serial-port-communication
  interfacing, link speed control

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Internet Based Software Library for the SIR-1
Serial Port Controlled Robot


Internet
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Internet Based Computer Vision Framework For
Security, Surveillance And Tracking Applications

• Vision Framework for Real-Time Tasks with
  Off-The-Shelf Hardware
• Early processing (Gaussian Filters, Histogram
  Normalization, Color Filtering)
• Feature Extraction (Edge Detection, Line /
  Ellipse detection, Region Growing, Region
  Splitting, MinMax point extraction)
• Feature Matching

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Internet Based Computer Vision Framework For
Security, Surveillance And Tracking Applications
acquisition
color filtering
conversion to monochrome
Gaussian blur
thresholding
MinMax feature extractor
heuristic feature detection
feature matcher
match result
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Internet Controlled Satellite Transponder (Using
A Remotely Controlled Robotic Manipulator)

• remote control of a satellite transponder through
  a robotic manipulator mechanically changing
  controls on the receiver
• interfacing between robot and server (RS-232)
• interfacing between receiver and server
• interfacing between server and internet
• teaching the robot (trajectory planning and
  generation)

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Internet Controlled Satellite Transponder (Using
A Remotely Controlled Robotic Manipulator)
satellite transponder
remote PC
Internet
receiver
video interface
server
robotic manipulator