Measuring Performance in Robotic Teleoperation Tasks with Virtual Reality Headgear

Abstract

With the current rise of a new wave of Virtual Reality technologies, wider range of their applications are to be expected. Head Mounted Displays (HMDs) are starting to find use in some of human-machine interfaces for robots. We seek to measure and evaluate the impact that these devices can have on performance in standard robotic teleoperation tasks such as driving, observation and manipulation. In a study conducted with two real robots and standardized testing environment, including a total of 17 operators and 5 different tasks, an interface consisting of HMD and stereo vision module is compared to a more traditional one.