User Access – About SyRoTek

The user access to SyRoTek is realized through control computer accessible from the Internet. The access can be divided into three categories:

• Web pages with basic information about system, courses and supporting materials
• Remote session at the control computer
• Remote access to the robot

The remote session allows users to use pre-configured development environment and tools while the remote access to the robot provides direct robot control and sensory data readings.

In SyRoTek, a dedicated visualization component is being developed to provide a visualization tool. The component is based on modified Stage simulator (version 3.x) that is enhanced to support showing video streams on-line or from recorded files. The intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of the used cameras are identified and used in the transformation matrices for sensory data visualization in an OpenGL context. The component can be used in several ways. At first it can be used as an independent visualization application at user's workstation or as a plug-in for some of Integrated Developing Environment (IDE), e.g. see integration with Netbeans. The application allows on-line visualization using current sensory data transmitted from the SyRoTek control computer and live streams from visualization cameras. Alternatively the application can be used as data log player allowing detailed analysis of the robot performance. Finally the visualization component is planned to be used for off-line creation of documented video files to support evaluation of the users tasks.

Details on user access scheme can be found in section 6 of the overview paper [1].

How to install the NetBeans environment and to access the SyRoTek system

One can find comprehensive guidelines: how to install necessary software components and how to begin with the SyRoTek system in the following pdf files in English or in Czech.

[1] Jan Chudoba, Jan Faigl, Miroslav Kulich, Tomáš Krajník, Karel Košnar, Libor Přeučil, A TECHNICAL SOLUTION OF A ROBOTIC E-LEARNING SYSTEM IN THE SYROTEK PROJECT. In Proc. of 3rd international conference on computer supported education. 2011.