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With the current rise of a new wave of Virtual Reality technologies, wider range of their applications are to be expected. Head Mounted Displays (HMDs) are starting to find use in some of human-machine interfaces for robots. We seek to measure and evaluate the impact that these devices can have on performance in standard robotic teleoperation tasks such as driving, observation and manipulation. In a study conducted with two real robots and standardized testing environment, including a total of 17 operators and 5 different tasks, an interface consisting of HMD and stereo vision module is compared to a more traditional one.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge that part of the work presented was carried out within the European Research Programme ARTEMIS (Advanced Research and Technology for Embedded Intelligence and Systems), project R5-COP (Reconfigurable ROS-based Resilient Reasoning Robotic Co-operating Systems), co financed by Polish National Centre for Research and Development.
We are thankful to Artur Kaczmarczyk who helped with tests execution, ensuring all data is recorded properly and to our colleagues who participated in tests as operators, always trying to achieve best possible results.
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Maciaś, M. et al. (2020). Measuring Performance in Robotic Teleoperation Tasks with Virtual Reality Headgear. In: Szewczyk, R., Zieliński, C., Kaliczyńska, M. (eds) Automation 2019. AUTOMATION 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 920. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13273-6_39
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