Assisted Teleoperation through the merging of real and virtual images

Abstract

The execution of teleoperated tasks is based on the visual feedback of the working scene through TV cameras located adequately in the working environment. Common problems in many applications are the lack of visibility produced by the task conditions and poor dexterity. With the aim of increasing the users' perception capabilities, as well as, their precision ability, a set of teleoperation aids have been studied and developed. These aids are based on visual information and other sensor data or on some knowledge about the working environment. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.