Land control and monitoring system for fire prevention
Giorgio Buttazzo, Giorgio Chiandussi, Claudio Giovanni Demartini, Giancarlo Iannizzotto, Lucia Lo Bello, Fulvia Quagliotti · PORTO Publications Open Repository TOrino (Politecnico di Torino) · 2006
the consumed energy and the implementation of network real-time wireless protocols are still challenging tasks. Another key point is the human-machine interface devoted to the control of the platform. Usual approaches to remote control of mobile platforms involve analog remote controls and direct visual feedback. A control station is provided with one or more cloches and the visual contact is the main source of feedback for the operator, who relies on his/her experience to visually drive the mobile device toward its target. Instrumental control (i.e., without any direct visual contact with the mobile device) has been exploited in unmanned vehicles, but when involved dynamics become very fast, a number of significan t issues come up, several of them being related to human-computer interaction: since the control depends on human actions, a fast and reliable communication must be assured between the human operator and the computer, in order to build an efficient control chain. Thus data acquisition, merging and presentation becomes crucial as well as user action detection and interpretation.