Applications of Augmented Reality for Human-Robot Communication
Ergonomics in Teleoperation and Control Laboratory (ETC-Lab)
Industrial Engineering,
University of
Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A4
and
Julius J. Grodski
Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3M 3B9
Proceedings of IROS'93: International Conference on Intelligent
Robots and Systems, 1467-1476, Yokohama Japan, July 1993.
(c) Copyright 1993.
Abstract
The Director/Agent (D/A) metaphor of telerobotic interaction is
discussed, as a potential means for achieving human-robot synergy. In
order for the human operator to communicate spatial information to the
robot during D/A operations, the medium of augmented reality
through overlaid virtual stereographics is proposed, leading to what we
refer to as virtual control . An overview is given of the ARGOS
(Augmented Reality through Graphic Overlays on Stereovideo) system. In
particular, the uses of overlaid virtual pointers for enhancing
absolute depth judgement tasks, virtual tape measures for
real-world quantification, virtual tethers for perceptual
enhancement in manual teleoperation, virtual landmarks for
enhancing depth scaling and virtual object overlays for
on-object edge enhancement and display superposition are all presented
and discussed briefly.
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