Internet-based teleoperation of the romeo ROY in polar environments

In the last years, with the rapid growth of the Internet, there has been a similar increase in the number of efforts aimed to make robotics resources available via the World Wide Web. In the case of marine applications, the great interest to succeed in allowing scientific end-users to program, execute and follow the state of progress of missions at sea carried out by a robotic underwater vehicle operating with strict interactions with the environment in remote and harsh sites, from the comfort of their laboratory, motivated investigations and experiments on Internet and satellite based teleoperation of marine robots. In this research framework, this paper presents the software and hardware infrastructure for Internet-based teleoperation of underwater vehicles that was successfully used in Polar environments with the Romeo ROV. Copyright © 2004 by The International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers.