TY - GEN
T1 - A visual language for robot control and programming
T2 - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA'07
AU - Dudek, Gregory
AU - Sattar, Junaed
AU - Xu, Anqi
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - We describe an interaction paradigm for controlling a robot using hand gestures. In particular, we are interested in the control of an underwater robot by an onsite human operator. Under this context, vision-based control is very attractive, and we propose a robot control and programming mechanism based on visual symbols. A human operator presents engineered visual targets to the robotic system, which recognizes and interprets them. This paper describes the approach and proposes a specific gesture language called "RoboChat". RoboChat allows an operator to control a robot and even express complex programming concepts, using a sequence of visually presented symbols, encoded into fiducial markers. We evaluate the efficiency and robustness of this symbolic communication scheme by comparing it to traditional gesture-based interaction involving a remote human operator.
AB - We describe an interaction paradigm for controlling a robot using hand gestures. In particular, we are interested in the control of an underwater robot by an onsite human operator. Under this context, vision-based control is very attractive, and we propose a robot control and programming mechanism based on visual symbols. A human operator presents engineered visual targets to the robotic system, which recognizes and interprets them. This paper describes the approach and proposes a specific gesture language called "RoboChat". RoboChat allows an operator to control a robot and even express complex programming concepts, using a sequence of visually presented symbols, encoded into fiducial markers. We evaluate the efficiency and robustness of this symbolic communication scheme by comparing it to traditional gesture-based interaction involving a remote human operator.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363842
DO - 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363842
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:36348954397
SN - 1424406021
SN - 9781424406029
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
SP - 2507
EP - 2513
BT - 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA'07
Y2 - 10 April 2007 through 14 April 2007
ER -