About SyRoTek

The SyRoTek (“System for robotic e-learning”) allows you to remotely (via internet) control a multi-robot platform in a dynamic environment. With SyRoTek you will be able to develop own algorithms and monitor their behaviour on-line during real experiments. You can train and test your robotic skills with a large set of pre-prepared multi-robot exercises and with comprehensive robotic courses you can enroll for. Besides, you can arrange your own multi-robot scenario simply by a remote control of dynamic obstacles in the SyRoTek arena and by specifying required robots. SyRoTek provides a large set of sensors placed onboard the robots, while others stand-alone to get global overview of the playfield status on-line.

Overview

An overview of the SyRoTek realization is depicted in the following picture and can be also found in [1].

The system consists from an arena where mobile robots are located. A user access to SyRoTek from his/her workstation is realized through the main control computer that is accessible from the Internet. A wireless communication infrastructure is used to connect robots with the main control computer. A visualization system with several cameras provides views to the real scene and an access to on-line streams or archived video files is realized by a video server. A localization system based on a camera placed above the arena is used to estimate real position of the robots. The particular subsystems are described in more detail in the following links.

• Robots
• Arena
• User Access

[1] Faigl, J. - Chudoba, J. - Košnar, K. - Kulich, M. - Saska, M. - et al.: SyRoTek - A Robotic System for Education. In First International Conference on Robotics in Education, Bratislava [CD-ROM]. Bratislava: Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, 2010, p. 37-42. ISBN 978-80-227-3353-3.