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In September 2002, thanks to Romeo ROV's control architecture design,
some operations at sea in the Kongsfjord in Norway were remotely controlled
via Internet by means of a pilot console based on a Java Applet suited to run
on any computer connected to the Internet and equipped with a Web browser.
Through a wireless communication system connecting the supply
vessel to the Italian Station, developed in collaboration with CNR-SR&T, it
was possible to be world-wide connected with Romeo to follow the
experiments and even to pilot the robot by means of high level commands.
This allowed the execution of a number of missions under the control of
some teams of Marine scientists - from different European countries - who,
without moving from their laboratories, conducted real-time experiments
in the underwater environment of the Kongsfjord.
As a matter of fact, this was the first Romeo's campaign in the Kongsfjord -
after two successful Antarctic Expedition - and this thanks to the very
fruitful collaboration with the CNR-Polarnet.
This last campaign had two main goals:
- to conduct a set of preliminary dives in various sites in the Kongsfjord,
to test the equipment and the methodology and to give the Marine scientists
a preliminary set of data to plan a more systematic investigation in the
future years
- to test and demonstrate the effectiveness of the remote control of the
robots employed in extreme environment for tele-science applications, along
the methodology already employed in the E-Robot Project, carried out during
the 2001-02 PNRA expedition to Antarctica
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Photographs taken by Romeo during E-Robot2 campaign
