Presentation
Friday 11th March at 10:15 pm.
In LTU Media Lab and in Marratech Telepresence room.
The avatar control client can be downloaded here. The IP address of the avatar is necessary for remote control. It will be published during the the presentation.

The project group members are:
- Emil Carlsson, programmer
- John Håkansson, informer and lego builder
- Johan Lindbergh, programmer
- Jörgen Normark, communications

Project description
The idea of this project is to distribute physical presence. The project group will develop an remote controlled robot that can represent a real person in any other place in the world.

The project group will build an fully functionable prototype robot with an remote controlled interface in a Lego (Lejos) computer. The robot may be controlled over an ordinary Internet connection. The avatar will be equipped with necessary gadgets as a Tablet PC, WLAN, IR, Web camera, microphone, speakers and Marratech communications software.


Sketch of the avatar communication system.

Further development
If we had more time and better equipment we would first of all have built the robot as big and fast as a real person to make its presence more human like. We would also have built a movable arm that could be used as a pointer.

The graphical user interface would have been made as a Java Applet so that everyone could use it without any specific program running, just a regular web browser.

Instead of using MarratechPro together with our application we would have implemented our own audio/video protocol to shorten the delay time.

Project Report
Download the Projekt report [PDF in Swedish]

Software
Download the Remote control client [ZIP 32 kb]

Video
Short presentation video [WMV 10.3 MB]

Pictures


The Lego construction.

A fully equipped avatar with flames.

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