Virtual reality assisted robot programming for human collaboration

Augmented Reality for Human-Robot Collaboration

Although robotics is well established as a research field, there has been relatively little work on human-robot collaboration. This type of collaboration is going to become an increasingly important issue as robots work ever more closely with humans. For example, in space exploration, recent research has pointed out that to reduce human workload, costs, fatigue driven error and risk, intelligen...

Robot Programming by Demonstration in Virtual Reality

An Augmented Reality Human-Robot Collaboration System

Interface design for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) will soon become one of the toughest challenges that the field of robotics faces (Thrun 2004). As HRI interfaces mature it will become more common for humans and robots to work together in a collaborative manner. Although robotics is well established as a research field, there has been relatively little work on human-robot collaboration. There ...

A Novel Virtual Reality Robot Interface for Isoglide3 Parallel Robot

This paper presents an IG3PR-VRI, a novel Virtual Reality (VR) interface for the control of the Isoglide3 Parallel Robot (IG3PR), an effective robotic device with three degrees of freedom manipulation. The IG3PR manipulator introduced in [24], offers the superior characteristics with regards to the other parallel manipulators, such as the light weight construction on one hand, while on the othe...

Handshake: Realistic Human-Robot Interaction in Haptic Enhanced Virtual Reality

This paper focuses on the development and evaluation of a haptic enhanced virtual reality system which allows a human user to make physical handshakes with a virtual partner through a haptic interface. Multimodal feedback signals are designed to generate the illusion that a handshake with a robotic arm is a handshake with another human. Advanced controllers of the haptic interface are developed...