Preliminary Work on a Virtual Reality Interface for the Guidance of Underwater Robots
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Preliminary Work on a Virtual Reality Interface for the Guidance of Underwater RobotsDate
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DE LA CRUZ, Marcos, et al. Preliminary Work on a Virtual Reality Interface for the Guidance of Underwater Robots. Robotics, 2020, vol. 9, núm. 4, p. 81Type
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The need for intervention in underwater environments has increased in recent years but there is still a long way to go before AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicleswill be able to cope with really challenging missions. ... [+]
The need for intervention in underwater environments has increased in recent years but there is still a long way to go before AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicleswill be able to cope with really challenging missions. Nowadays, the solution adopted is mainly based on remote operated vehicle (ROV) technology. These ROVs are controlled from support vessels by using unnecessarily complex human–robot interfaces (HRI). Therefore, it is necessary to reduce the complexity of these systems to make them easier to use and to reduce the stress on the operator. In this paper, and as part of the TWIN roBOTs for the cooperative underwater intervention missions (TWINBOT) project, we present an HRI (Human-Robot Interface) module which includes virtual reality (VR) technology. In fact, this contribution is an improvement on a preliminary study in this field also carried out, by our laboratory. Hence, having made a concerted effort to improve usability, the HRI system designed for robot control tasks presented in this paper is substantially easier to use. In summary, reliability and feasibility of this HRI module have been demonstrated thanks to the usability tests, which include a very complete pilot study, and guarantee much more friendly and intuitive properties in the final HRI-developed module presented here. [-]
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This work has been partly funded by Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness under grant DPI2017-86372-C3-1-R (COMOMUIS Project), by Valencian Government under GVA-PROMETEO/2016/066 grant, under FEDER project IDIFEDER/2018/013 and by UJI under UJI-B2018-34 grant (NEPTUNO Project).Rights
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