Time Follower´s Vision: a teleoperation interface with past images

Time-Followers´s Vision is a mixed-reality-based visual presentation system that captures a robotic vehicle´s size, position, and environment, allowing even inexperienced operators to easily control it. The technique produces a virtual image using mixed reality technology and presents the vehicle´s surrounding environment and status to the operator. Therefore, even for inexperienced operators, the vehicle´s position and orientation and the surrounding situation can be readily understood. The authors implement a prototype system and evaluate its feasibility. This article is available with a short video documentary on CD-ROM.