Our latest research paper on network communication protocols for telerobotic applications has been accepted for publication.
We are pleased to announce that our paper titled “Benchmarking TCP-Based Protocols Across Varying Network Conditions for Telerobotics” has been accepted for publication.
The study, conducted by Alp Dikmen, Salih Mert Canseven, and Tacha Serif from the PerSystLab of Yeditepe University, presents a comprehensive evaluation of three widely used TCP-based communication approaches—gRPC, WebSocket, and plain TCP—for real-time telerobotic applications.
The research employs a real-world teleoperation testbed in which hand movements are captured using the MediaPipe framework and transmitted over the network to control a dexterous robotic hand. The communication protocols are evaluated under three different network-quality scenarios, based on the ITU-T Y.1541 recommendations, by measuring one-way latency, jitter, throughput, and TCP retransmission ratio.
Experimental results demonstrate that both gRPC and WebSocket consistently outperform a conventional TCP implementation across all tested network conditions. By leveraging efficient application-layer communication mechanisms such as Protocol Buffers and persistent connections, the proposed approaches significantly reduce communication latency while maintaining reliable performance, making them well suited for latency-sensitive telerobotic applications.
This work contributes to the development of reliable network communication frameworks for next-generation telerobotics and highlights the importance of selecting appropriate communication protocols for mission-critical applications such as remote surgery, industrial automation, and intelligent robotic systems.