Livelihood activities supported by embodiment expansion based on gesture operated robots

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K00292
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Human interface and interaction
• Research Institution: Okinawa International University
• Principal Investigator: ODO SATORU 沖縄国際大学, 産業情報学部, 准教授 (90369207)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ジェスチャ操作 / 遠隔制御 / 生活支援 / IoT / 拡張現実

Outline of Final Research Achievements

A system came into place to extend vision and tactile sense using a camera mounted mobile robot (a small helicopter, ground-running robot) and a head mounted display (HMD).
There are two kinds of formats by HMD as follows: (1) A transparent-type device: Presentation of indoor environmental information and remote operation of home electronics by AR technology enabled to realize the expansion of the visual information. (2) A non-transparent type device: The images from the robot were successful to offer a sense of realism, making it possible to present images in line with users' head movement. Both systems were together controllable by gesture recognition and were also able to express the sense of touching an object by using a tactile sense presentation device. This has made it possible to realize the proposed system.

Free Research Field

情報工学