Design and development of two generations of semi-autonomous social telepresence robots

Tsui, Katherine M.; Norton, Adam; Brooks, Daniel J.; McCann, Eric; Medvedev, Mikhail; Yanco, Holly A.

doi:10.1109/tepra.2013.6556360

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“…1a), a VGo telepresence robot augmented with an on-board computer and a variety of sensors (Tsui et al, 2013), and "Roompi" (Fig. 1b), an iRobot Create augmented with a Raspberry Pi computer, Hokuyo Laser Range Finder, speakers, and webcam.…”

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Covert Robot-Robot Communication: Human Perceptions and Implications for HRI

Williams

Briggs

Scheutz

2015

Journal of Human-Robot Interaction

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As future human-robot teams are envisioned for a variety of application domains, researchers have begun to investigate how humans and robots can communicate effectively and naturally in the context of human-robot team tasks. While a growing body of work is focused on human-robot communication and human perceptions thereof, there is currently little work on human perceptions of robot-robot communication. Understanding how robots should communicate information to each other in the presence of human teammates is an important open question for human-robot teaming. In this paper, we present two human-robot interaction (HRI) experiments investigating the human perception of verbal and silent robotrobot communication as part of a human-robot team task. The results suggest that silent communication of task-dependent, human-understandable information among robots is perceived as creepy by cooperative, co-located human teammates. Hence, we propose that, absent specific evidence to the contrary, robots in cooperative human-robot team settings need to be sensitive to human expectations about overt communication, and we encourage future work to investigate possible ways to modulate such expectations.

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Covert Robot-Robot Communication: Human Perceptions and Implications for HRI

Williams

Briggs

Scheutz

2015

Journal of Human-Robot Interaction

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“…In fact, previous studies have shown that a high mental workload has been associated to remote driving of telepresence units [6]. One method to mitigate this workload has been to add a number of autonomous features to telepresence robots [7], [8]. These features simplify certain tasks, such as navigating to specified rooms or docking the robot to the charging station.…”

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Evaluation of using semi-autonomy features in mobile robotic telepresence systems

Kiselev

Kristoffersson

Melendez

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE 7th International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS) and IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation

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Abstract-Mobile robotic telepresence systems used for social interaction scenarios require that users steer robots in a remote environment. As a consequence, a heavy workload can be put on users if they are unfamiliar with using robotic telepresence units. One way to lessen this workload is to automate certain operations performed during a telepresence session in order to assist remote drivers in navigating the robot in new environments. Such operations include autonomous robot localization and navigation to certain points in the home and automatic docking of the robot to the charging station. In this paper we describe the implementation of such autonomous features along with user evaluation study. The evaluation scenario is focused on the first experience on using the system by novice users. Importantly, that the scenario taken in this study assumed that participants have as little as possible prior information about the system. Four different use-cases were identified from the user behaviour analysis.

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“…Telepresence systems have recently become an emerging area research since they have been developed to overcome fixed video conference systems [2][3][4]. Recently, extensive research in the field of the telepresence has addressed the issues of the interaction between humans and robots in remote areas.…”

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“…Particularly, Giraff is a typical telepresence robot for remote visiting which has been developed for home care of the elderly [3]. Some early telepresence robots are already commercially available [4].…”

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Real-time transmission of panoramic images for a telepresence wheelchair

Nguyen

2015

2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)

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Abstract-This paper proposes an approach to transmit panoramic images in real-time for a telepresence wheelchair. The system can provide remote monitoring and assistive assistance for people with disabilities. This study exploits technological advancement in image processing, wireless communication networks, and healthcare systems. High resolution panoramic images are extracted from the camera which is mounted on the wheelchair. The panoramic images are streamed in real-time via a wireless network. The experimental results show that streaming speed is up to 250 KBps. The subjective quality assessments show that the received images are smooth during the streaming period. In addition, in terms of the objective image quality evaluation the average peak signalto-noise ratio of the reconstructed images is measured to be 39.19 dB which reveals high quality of images.

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Design and development of two generations of semi-autonomous social telepresence robots

Cited by 23 publications

References 15 publications

Covert Robot-Robot Communication: Human Perceptions and Implications for HRI

Covert Robot-Robot Communication: Human Perceptions and Implications for HRI

Evaluation of using semi-autonomy features in mobile robotic telepresence systems

Real-time transmission of panoramic images for a telepresence wheelchair

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