A reconfigurable multi-touch framework for teleoperation tasks

Author

Paravati, Gianluca ; Sanna, Andrea ; Lamberti, Fabrizio ; Celozzi, Cesare

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Autom. e Inf., Politec. di Torino, Torino, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

5-9 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A wide variety of remotely controlled mobile robots have been developed in the past. Despite the evolution in robotics functionalities, not much effort has been made to customize control interfaces to meet user preferences and needs. General users can find difficulties in controlling mobile robots by standard interfaces. On the other hand, recent advances in multi-touch devices now allow researchers to design and implement intuitive and user friendly interfaces. This paper presents recent efforts to control mobile platforms by using customizable multi-touch gestures drawn on a commonly available hand-held device. In particular, a live stream video coming from an on board camera allows both to automatically and manually control the platform to accomplish target tracking and following tasks.

Keywords

cameras; control engineering computing; mobile robots; robot vision; telerobotics; touch sensitive screens; user interfaces; video streaming; control interfaces; customizable multitouch gestures; hand held device; live stream video; on board camera; reconfigurable multitouch framework; remotely controlled mobile robots; robotics functionalities; target following; target tracking; teleoperation tasks; user preferences; Cameras; Haptic interfaces; Mobile handsets; Mobile robots; Robot sensing systems; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA), 2011 IEEE 16th Conference on

Conference_Location

Toulouse

ISSN

1946-0740

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0017-0

Electronic_ISBN

1946-0740

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2011.6059219

Filename

6059219