ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the problems of teleoperation systems of a mobile robot and utilization of the virtual world, in which a human-robot collaboration based on the teleoperation system is provided as comfortable human interfaces. Efficient utilization of Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems requires the optional assignment of tasks for routine and emergency responses to multiple robots which include various kinds of functions. The chapter discusses a novel man-machine interface for maintenance of a bioplant, in particular, an adaptive multirobot scheduling system (AMSS). It explains the scheme and performance of the AMSS on the basis of several working hypotheses. The AMSS is composed of a task database, a scheduling knowledge base and an inference engine for scheduling. The inference engine in the AMSS allots a maintenance task to each robot by using the task recipe and the scheduling knowledge base. By using a virtual world for a real robot operation, there come many advantages in the system.
