TY - GEN
T1 - A multi-robot system for unconfined video-conferencing
AU - Karnad, Nikhil
AU - Isler, Volkan I
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Telepresence or tele-immersion technologies allow people to attend a shared meeting without being physically present in the same location. Commercial telepresence solutions available in the market today have significant drawbacks - they are very expensive, and confine people to the area covered by stationary cameras. In this paper, we present a mobile tele-immersion platform that addresses these issues by using robots with embedded cameras. In our system, the users can move around freely because robots autonomously adjust their locations. We provide a geometric definition of what it means to get a good view of the user, and present control algorithms to maintain a good view. The algorithms are validated both in simulation and in real experiments.
AB - Telepresence or tele-immersion technologies allow people to attend a shared meeting without being physically present in the same location. Commercial telepresence solutions available in the market today have significant drawbacks - they are very expensive, and confine people to the area covered by stationary cameras. In this paper, we present a mobile tele-immersion platform that addresses these issues by using robots with embedded cameras. In our system, the users can move around freely because robots autonomously adjust their locations. We provide a geometric definition of what it means to get a good view of the user, and present control algorithms to maintain a good view. The algorithms are validated both in simulation and in real experiments.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509600
DO - 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509600
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77955815975
SN - 9781424450381
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
SP - 356
EP - 361
BT - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2010
T2 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2010
Y2 - 3 May 2010 through 7 May 2010
ER -