Investigating perceptual aspects of real-time video streaming based remote moving platform control

Abstract: Throughout history, the construction industry has been known to present many risks to its workers’ safety and is still the cause of many accidents. This thesis examines a potential solution to one of the main problems faced by this field.Teleoperation has gained popularity, especially over the last ten years, and its application can be useful to many domains. Amongst them, research done on teleoperation tools for construction sites has been growing considerably as it appears to be a solution for some of the safety problems that it’s facing. Through a literature study and the building and running of an experiment, it aims to investigate parameters that can influence the performance and user experience of participants while remotely controlling a platform. By selecting a few parameters that can play a role in video streaming, the goal is to correlate their influence on the quality of experience of participants as they experience a prototype for a construction site. After conducting the experiment with multiple test participants, the results are analyzed and can lead to conclusions. Finally, future improvements can be made for another iteration of the experiment.