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Integrating 3D Reconstruction and Virtual Reality: A New Approach for Immersive Teleoperation

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The current state of technology permits very accurate 3D reconstructions of real scenes acquiring information through quite different sensors altogether. A high precision modelling that allows simulating any element of the environment on virtual interfaces has also been achieved. This paper illustrates a methodology to correctly model a 3D reconstructed scene, with either a camera RGB-D or a laser, and how to integrate and display it in virtual reality environments based on Unity, as well as a comparison between both results. The main interest regarding this line of research consists in the automation of all the process from the map generation to its visualisation with the VR glasses, although this first approach only managed to get results using several programs manually. The long-term objective would be indeed a real-time immersion in Unity interacting with the scene seen by the camera.

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This work was partially supported by the Robotics and Cybernetics Group at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain), and it was funded under the projects: PRIC (Proteccin Robotizada de Infraestructuras Crticas; DPI2014-56985-R), sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and RoboCity2030-III-CM (Robtica aplicada a la mejora de la calidad de vida de los ciudadanos. fase III; S2013/MIT-2748), funded by Programas de Actividades I+D en la Comunidad de Madrid and cofunded by Structural Founds of the EU.

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Navarro, F., Fdez, J., Garzón, M., Roldán, J.J., Barrientos, A. (2018). Integrating 3D Reconstruction and Virtual Reality: A New Approach for Immersive Teleoperation. In: Ollero, A., Sanfeliu, A., Montano, L., Lau, N., Cardeira, C. (eds) ROBOT 2017: Third Iberian Robotics Conference. ROBOT 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 694. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70836-2_50

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