The Tactile Internet

6Telerobotics

Wrya MONNET

Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

University of Kurdistan Hewlêr, Erbil, Iraq

6.1. Introduction

In the first chapters of this book, the Tactile Internet paradigm’s primary enabling technologies, such as the low latency and the reliable communication network, were mentioned and explained. Both of these technologies are considered to be critical requirements to realize the haptic communication between the master and slave domains. In the Tactile Internet, the human is in the loop and informed about the slave side through tactile or kinesthetic feedbacks. These returns are used jointly or individually to get a real-time remote site experience, in order to control it efficiently and correctly.

In the network domain, malfunctioning, such as packet losses and increased transmission delays, may result in an unstable and less transparent system. Control capabilities of the system at the master and slave domains are necessary to compensate for the network domain inconveniences.

In a networked remote-controlled robotic system, with its sensors and actuators, many degrees of freedom (DoF) are required to enable an adequate level of dexterity. Machine learning algorithms and powerful embedded processors can provide good local control loops for better stability and transparency. Thus, to implement an overall teleoperated system, interdisciplinary techniques are involved, such as networking, control systems, haptic sensors and machine learning. In ...