Operator Teleop - faster, more reliable and with advanced joystick control


Most mobile, logistic, agricultural and other robots can now operate autonomously 90-98% of the time, however they cannot fully function without human help when they are in an extraordinary situation.

Speaking to more than 800 robotics specialists and companies, 68% of them reported that stable teleoperation is critical at some level to deploy robot fleets remotely. It is important to be able to remotely control your robots stably. And it is very difficult to do.

The companies asked the energy operators:

Skip mission planning and send a robot to a location

Resume driving to get the robot out of a safe situation

It allows the manipulation and control of elevators and arms.

Manually pick an object if you cannot complete it independently

Seamlessly switch between robot control modes (driving vs. controlling an arm or elevator)

To allow a robot to quickly return to automatic operation. Without it, several companies have reported that their entire production line has repeatedly broken down for minutes due to starvation. This is because only one robot found itself in a situation where it could not navigate autonomously and it took a long time to safely reset it and deliver the missing parts.

MiR Robot

In complex environment, AMRs can easily get into situation where human-level intelligence is required.

We are pleased to announces the releases of our Operator Teleop, or colloquially known as Pilot 1.5, which is based on our initial June release of Freedom Pilot.

This major release allows Freedom Robotics users to remotely intervene and operate robots in low connectivity environments. It takes into account important feedback and requests for real-world features over the past few months from Freedom users who have deployed fleets that depend on Pilot. In addition, it has been optimized with hundreds of hours of testing and tuning in poorly connected cell areas on a variety of robotic platforms.

 

The new version features a much faster, smoother and more responsive teleoperation experience, various bug fixes and user interface improvements, and adds support for the use of physical game controllers for advanced control of robots, arms. mobile and robotic.

A game changer in Remote Teleop

In order to confidently control a robot from anywhere in the world, a fast, smooth and stable connection is required. In area with poor connectivity and limited bandwidth, the connection algorithm should appropriately reduce less important video properties to ensure a secure connection and a smooth driving experiences. This has always been our focuses and today we announce a big step forward in that direction, after some very extensive testing and tuning of the Freedom Agent and the underlying transportation infrastructure.In extremely poor connectivity environments, latency can increase through dead spots in Wi-Fi or cellular connectivity. Through multiple infrastructure iterations that increased connection resilience and optimized bandwidth, areas of poor control have almost been eliminated.

Poor connectivity doesn't just happen outdoors on cellular network. In many logistic facilities, where they can be up to a quarter of a mile in length, there are significant weak spots or dead spots in connectivity that robots must navigate.

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