Authors:
Patrick Rößler
;
Timothy Armstrong
;
Oliver Hessel
;
Michael Mende
and
Uwe D. Hanebeck
Affiliation:
Intelligent Sensor-Actuator-Systems Laboratory, Institute of Computer Science and Engineering, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
Keyword(s):
Extended range telepresence, haptic interface, motion compression.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
;
Robot Design, Development and Control
;
Robotics and Automation
;
Telerobotics and Teleoperation
;
Virtual Environment, Virtual and Augmented Reality
Abstract:
Telepresence gives a user the impression of actually being present in a distant environment. A mobile teleoperator acts as a proxy in this target environment, replicates the user’s motion, and records sensory information, which is transferred to the user and displayed in real-time. As a result the user is immersed in the target environment. The user can then control the teleoperator by walking naturally. Motion Compression, a nonlinear mapping between the user’s and the robot’s motion, allows exploration of large target environments even from small user environments.
For manipulation tasks haptic feedback is important. However, current haptic displays do not allow wide-area motion. In this work we present our design of a novel haptic display for simultaneous wide area motion and haptic interaction.