HUB-CI Telerobotics

Objective

Designing HUB-CI model to optimize collaborative e-Work

1. Integrated tools (both software and hardware) to support multi-dimensional collaboration
2. Distributed teams of experts controlling centralized telerobots with collaborative intelligence
3. Prevent conflicts and errors in the complex system

Methodology

1. HUB-CI model for collaboration support infrastructure of collaboration lifecycle management
2. Smart command aggregation by collaboration support agents
3. Collaborative insights management and consensus decision-making support
4. Conflict and error detection and prevention network deployed in the system

Applications

Hand Gesture collaboratively controlled Nuclear Decommissioning	Collaborative Design and Prototyping

Sample Publications

Hao Zhong , Juan P. Wachs & Shimon Y. Nof (2013) A collaborative telerobotics network framework with hand gesture interface and conflict prevention, International Journal of Production Research, 51:15, 4443-4463, DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2012.756591

Contact

Hao Zhong (zhong11@purdue.edu)