TY - GEN
T1 - A teleoperating interface for ground vehicles using autonomous flying cameras
AU - Saakes, Daniel
AU - Choudhary, Vipul
AU - Sakamoto, Daisuke
AU - Inami, Masahiko
AU - Lgarashi, Takeo
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Navigating remote robots and providing awareness of the remote environment is essential in many teleoperated tasks. An external view on the remote robot, a bird's eye view, is thought to improve operator performance. In this paper we explore a novel design for providing such a third-person view for a ground vehicle using a dynamic, external camera mounted on a quadcopter. Compared to earlier methods that use 3D reconstruction to create third-person views, our approach comprises a true third-person view through a video feed. We so provide visually rich, live information to the operator. In an experiment simulating a search and rescue mission in a simplified environment, we compared our proposed design to a pole-mounted camera and to a traditional front-mounted camera. The third-person perspective provided by our flying camera and pole-mounted camera resulted in fewer collisions and more victims being located, compared to the front-mounted camera.
AB - Navigating remote robots and providing awareness of the remote environment is essential in many teleoperated tasks. An external view on the remote robot, a bird's eye view, is thought to improve operator performance. In this paper we explore a novel design for providing such a third-person view for a ground vehicle using a dynamic, external camera mounted on a quadcopter. Compared to earlier methods that use 3D reconstruction to create third-person views, our approach comprises a true third-person view through a video feed. We so provide visually rich, live information to the operator. In an experiment simulating a search and rescue mission in a simplified environment, we compared our proposed design to a pole-mounted camera and to a traditional front-mounted camera. The third-person perspective provided by our flying camera and pole-mounted camera resulted in fewer collisions and more victims being located, compared to the front-mounted camera.
KW - H.1.2 [Information Systems]: Models and Principles - User/Machine systems
KW - H.5.2 [Information Systems]: HCI-User Interfaces
KW - I.2.9 [Computing Methodologies] Artificial Intelligence - Robotics
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U2 - 10.1109/icat.2013.6728900
DO - 10.1109/icat.2013.6728900
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84894456822
SN - 9784904490112
T3 - Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence, ICAT 2013
SP - 13
EP - 19
BT - Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence, ICAT 2013
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 23rd International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence, ICAT 2013
Y2 - 11 December 2013 through 13 December 2013
ER -