ExRobotics ExR-2 Operating Manual page 15

▪ Using the cursor to activate the "Stop" button has the same effect as pressing the emergency
stop switch on the controller. The drive motors are isolated until the switch is released. This
is done by using the green button on the controller or recommencing an autonomous
mission.
▪
There's a drop down list that's accessed via the "Robot power icon". When the "Keep awake"
box is ticked the robot won't sleep. If it's unticked the robot will save 4G costs and battery
power by sleeping (whether or not it's docked). There's an option to keep the gas detectors
on at all times so that they don't need to warm up before a mission can commence. The light
switch is also located in this drop-down menu.
▪ The teleoperation options at the bottom right of the screen allow drivers to switch between
Xbox, keyboard and touch controls to drive the robot.
▪ The microphone can be muted at the control station by toggling on the "Microphone"
window. The robot still transmits its sound to the cloud.
▪ The screen shows the gas levels for those gas detectors that are fitted to the robot. The gas
alarm levels for the robot can be adjusted by clicking on the icon to the top right of each gas
display window. An audio/visual alarm is emitted when the alarm level is exceeded.
▪ Snapshots are displayed in "Recorded media" once they've been uploaded to the server (this
happens automatically after taking them) and can be viewed in large scale by clicking on
them. From there they can be saved to the local machine by right clicking the full-sized
picture and selecting "Save As...".
▪ The icons at the top of "Recorded media" can be used to filter the time of the last events e.g.
images from the last 4 hours. Additionally, the "cloud download" icon to the right can be used
to download a complete set of recordings as a zip file.
▪ All video and LiDAR streams are displayed on the control station. Clicking on the "Expand
icon" of any window moves it to the largest
window.
▪ To take a snapshot, hover the cursor over any
video stream and click on the "Area of interest
icon" that appears in the top-left corner. Then
use the cursor to frame the area of interest and
click on the "Accept" button to capture the
image. Alternatively, you can take a full-size
picture by clicking on the "Full screen icon".
▪ To take a video, hover the cursor over any video stream and click on the "Video icon" that
appears in the top-left corner. The message "recording" will appear. To stop recording click
the "Video icon" again.
▪ Videos will be available only after the robot is back in the docking station (to save bandwidth
when driving, videos are not uploaded immediately). Videos are displayed in the Mission
Report website under "Recorded media" and can be viewed in large scale by clicking on them.
From there they can be saved to the local machine by right clicking the full-sized picture and
selecting "Save As...".
▪ The LiDAR screen displays a point cloud with a 3 dimensional representation of the robot's
environment. A mouse or trackpad can be used to rotate, expand, and reduce the image –
See Section 7.3.1.
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