Augmented Reality As a Tool to Aid the Telerobotic Exploration and Characterization of Remote Environments

The three-dimensional characterization and mapping of remote environments is an important task that generates a good deal of attention both by end users and by researchers across several Želds of interest. In the mobile robotics community, a great deal of work has been done in equipping vehicles with sensors that can acquire three-dimensional and even multimodal information about the location and nature of features and objects in remote environments. However, the interpretation of such data using fully autonomous methods, such as computer vision, is usually a highly complex problem that, we believe, is much better suited to a human-