Telepresence Mobile Robots Design and Control for Social Interaction

Tuli, Tadele Belay; Terefe, Tesfaye Olana; Rashid, M. Mushfiqur

doi:10.1007/s12369-020-00676-3

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“…Finally, some test scenarios were run with the robot so that its real behavior could be determined, which were predicted to prove roughly similar to the desired behavior. This proposed approach differs from previous approaches [16,17] in many ways. The proposed approach is a controller-based approach, rather than one based on big data.…”

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“…It required entirely new control electronics to be developed. The robot utilized the powerful direct current (DC) motor TruckPuller3 7.2 V for the drive and the powerful model-equipped servo motor HiTec HS-5745MG for steering [16]. The drive motor was equipped with an optical position encoder from the company M101B MEGATRON Elektronik AG & Co. [17], which the speed and direction can determine.…”

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Design of a Telepresence Robot to Avoid Obstacles in IoT-Enabled Sustainable Healthcare Systems

2023

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In the Internet of Things (IoT) era, telepresence robots (TRs) are increasingly a part of healthcare, academia, and industry due to their enormous benefits. IoT provides a sensor-based environment in which robots receive more precise information about their surroundings. The researchers work day and night to reduce cost, duration, and complexity in all application areas. It provides tremendous benefits, such as sustainability, welfare improvement, cost-effectiveness, user-friendliness, and adaptability. However, it faces many challenges in making critical decisions during motion, which requires a long training period and intelligent motion planning. These include obstacle avoidance during movement, intelligent control in hazardous situations, and ensuring the right measurements. Following up on these issues requires a sophisticated control design and a secure communication link. This paper proposes a control design to normalize the integration process and offer an auto-MERLIN robot with cognitive and sustainable architecture. A control design is proposed through system identification and modeling of the robot. The robot control design was evaluated, and a prototype was prepared for testing in a hazardous environment. The robot was tested by considering various parameters: driving straight ahead, turning right, self-localizing, and receiving commands from a remote location. The maneuverability, controllability, and stability results show that the proposed design is well-developed and cost-efficient, with a fast response time. The experimental results show that the proposed method significantly minimizes the obstacle collisions. The results confirm the employability and sustainability of the proposed design and demonstrate auto-MERLIN’s capabilities as a sustainable robot ready to be deployed in highly interactive scenarios.

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Design of a Telepresence Robot to Avoid Obstacles in IoT-Enabled Sustainable Healthcare Systems

2023

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“…Telepresence creates a virtual or simulated environment of the real experience” for the robot operator. A telepresence robots (TPR) is a remote-controlled movable wheeled device which is equipped with cameras, speakers, microphones, a screen, sensor-assisted motion control and other interactive features, which are especially designed for communicating and collaborating remotely (Kristoffersson et al , 2013; Tuli et al , 2021; Vaughn et al , 2015). A remote user can log into the robot to control it via computers, tablets or smartphones while experiencing the on-site surroundings on the screen.…”

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“…However, the social dimension and level of interaction as well as several psychological and pedagogical aspects of interactions with TPRs are not clear and have been little discussed in the literature (Bamoallem et al , 2016; Cha et al , 2017; Gallon et al , 2019; Lei et al , 2022; Newhart et al , 2016; Schouten et al , 2022; Tuli et al , 2021).…”

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Telepresence robots from the perspective of psychology and educational sciences

Virkus

Leoste²,

Marmor³

et al. 2023

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Purpose Telepresence robots (TPRs) are an emerging field of application and research that have received attention from various disciplines, including computer science, telehealth and education. The purpose of this study is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of publications on TPR in the Web of Science database from 1980 to 2022 to gain a better understanding of the state of research on TPRs and explore the role of pedagogical and psychological aspects in this research. Design/methodology/approach The analysis of research publications on TPRs was made on the basis of papers published in the Web of Science database from 1980 to 2022. The following research questions were proposed: What are the main tendencies in publication years, document types, countries of origin, source titles, publication authors, affiliations of authors and the most cited articles related to TPRs? What are the main topics discussed in the publications from the perspective of psychology? What are the main topics discussed in the publications from the perspective of educational sciences? Findings The results indicate that it is in the computer science where most of the existing research has been conducted, whereas the interest in the psychology and educational science has been relatively low. The greatest regional contributor has been the USA, whereas the effort in the European Union lags behind. Research publications in psychology in the Web of Science database related to TPRs can be grouped into three broad thematic categories: features of TPRs, degree of social presence compared to physical presence or other mediated technologies and opportunities for using TPRs. The results suggest that from the perspective of psychology, TPRs are one of the approaches that could enable greater social presence in remote communication. Most of the analysed papers in educational sciences investigated the opportunities of using TPRs in various educational fields. However, while the findings of the studies indicated significant potential of TPRs for education, their acceptance for wider use is still challenged. Research limitations/implications The limitations of this research are that this study only analysed research papers in the Web of Science database and therefore only covers a limited number of scientific papers published in the field of psychology and educational sciences on TPRs. In addition, only publications with the term “telepresence robots” in the topic area of the Web of Science database were analysed. Therefore, several relevant studies are not discussed in this paper that are not reflected in the Web of Science database or were related to other keywords. Originality/value The field of TPRs has not been explored using a bibliographic analysis of publications in the Web of Science database from the perspective of psychology and educational sciences. The findings of this paper will help researchers and academic staff better understand the state of research on TPRs and the pedagogical and psychological aspects addressed in this research.

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“…In particular, social robots have been rising in popularity as a domain merging several areas of research, from robotics and artificial intelligence to human-machine interaction and social behavior. The applications of social robots have been envisioned in a diversity of fields [68], from medicine [1,2] to care and assistance [3,4,69], telepresence [5,6], children companionship [7,8], and education [9][10][11][12][13][14]65].…”

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Social Robotics in Education: A Survey on Recent Studies and Applications

Youssef

Said

Kork

et al. 2023

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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Over the last years, social robots have been conceived to be used in various domains and for different purposes. This paper presents a survey on different applications and aspects of social robots in education. Different contexts are seen, ranging from children education, until higher education. A variety of applications and studies are reported, in areas like as second language tutoring, teaching assistance, and storytelling. Robotic platforms used in these applications are observed, and means of evaluation of users perception of robots are presented.

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Telepresence Mobile Robots Design and Control for Social Interaction

Cited by 15 publications

References 25 publications

Design of a Telepresence Robot to Avoid Obstacles in IoT-Enabled Sustainable Healthcare Systems

Design of a Telepresence Robot to Avoid Obstacles in IoT-Enabled Sustainable Healthcare Systems

Telepresence robots from the perspective of psychology and educational sciences

Social Robotics in Education: A Survey on Recent Studies and Applications

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