Robot Control - ExRobotics ExR-1 Operating Manual

The Fleet Status screen (see below) is accessed by clicking on the "navigation menu" icon to the
top left of the fleet management screen.
5.2.

Robot Control

Once a user has connected to a robot, most of the display information is intuitive:
The major functions are summarised in the picture below.
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All three video streams are displayed on the control station. Usually the highest resolution,
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forward-facing inspection video will be in the largest window. Clicking on the "Expand"
icon of any video stream window moves it to the largest window.
To take a snapshot, hover the cursor over any video stream and then click on the "Take
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Photo" icon that appears in the top-left corner. Then use the cursor to select the area of
interest and click on the "Accept" button to capture the image.
Snapshots are displayed in the "Event Log" once they have been uploaded to the server
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(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...".
To take a video, a mission must be active. This is done by undocking the robot and driving
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to the location of interest (Videos are currently not recorded if the robot status is "In
Dock"). Once ready, hover the cursor over any video stream and click on the "Video" icon
(small circle) that appears in the top-left corner. The message "recording" will appear. To
stop recording click again the "Video" icon.
Videos will be available only after the robot is back in the docking station (to save
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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 icons at the top of the "Event Log" can be used to filter the time of the last events
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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.
The audio stream of the microphone starts playing automatically and can be paused and
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re-started by clicking on the "Microphone" window.
The screen shows the gas levels for those gas detectors that are fitted to the robot. The
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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.
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