RobOps - Services for Telerobotic System Operations

This paper presents an approach towards the identification and definition of services for robotic operations. By analyzing use cases, scenarios and current robotic interfaces and operations and by taking autonomy concepts into account, a systematic categorization of robotic services is developed and used as a starting point for the definition of common and extendible robotic operation services. Suitable technologies for the definition and implementation of such services are analyzed and a conceptual architecture is presented. The on-going activities for the demonstration of these services with two different robotic systems are described.