{"id":6089,"date":"2016-10-12T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=6089"},"modified":"2016-10-12T13:02:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T20:02:41","slug":"improving-user-interfaces-for-robot-teleoperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/?p=6089","title":{"rendered":"Improving User Interfaces for Robot Teleoperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FXPAL robotics research group has recently explored technologies for improving the usability of mobile telepresence robots. We evaluated a prototype head-tracked stereoscopic (HTS) teleoperation interface for a remote collaboration task. The results of this study indicate that using a HTS systems reduces task errors and improves the perceived collaboration success and<br \/>\nviewing experience.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 250px; display: inline;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kratz.tk\/static\/img\/projects\/hst-system.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 250px; display: inline;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kratz.tk\/static\/img\/projects\/hmd-mockup.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also developed a new focus plus context viewing technique for mobile robot teleoperation. This allows us to use wide-angle camera images<br \/>\nthat proved rich contextual visual awareness of the robot&#8217;s surroundings while at the same time preserving a distortion-free region<br \/>\nin the middle of the camera view.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 200px; display: inline;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kratz.tk\/static\/img\/projects\/FCtemple.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 200px; display: inline;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kratz.tk\/static\/img\/projects\/fctts6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To this, we added a semi-automatic robot control method that allows operators to navigate the telepresence robot via a pointing and clicking directly on<br \/>\nthe camera image feed. This through-the-screen interaction paradigm has the advantage of decoupling operators from the robot control loop, freeing them for<br \/>\nother tasks besides driving the robot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wtSwwAb4WcM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As a result of this work, we presented two papers at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tc.columbia.edu\/conferences\/roman2016\/\">IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)<\/a>. We obtained a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tc.columbia.edu\/conferences\/roman2016\/ro-man-2016-best-paper-awards\/\">best paper award<\/a> for the paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Jim_Vaughan2\/publication\/307168369_Look_Where_You're_Going_Visual_Interfaces_for_Robot_Teleoperation\/links\/57c37be508ae2f5eb3396456.pdf\">&#8220;Look Where You\u2019re Going: Visual Interfaces for Robot Teleoperation&#8221;<\/a> in the Design category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FXPAL robotics research group has recently explored technologies for improving the usability of mobile telepresence robots. We evaluated a prototype head-tracked stereoscopic (HTS) teleoperation interface for a remote collaboration task. The results of this study indicate that using a HTS systems reduces task errors and improves the perceived collaboration success and viewing experience. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,7,194],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6089"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6110,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6089\/revisions\/6110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}