Choosing the Tools for Improving Distant Immersion and Perception in a Teleoperation Context

Abstract

the real environment into the virtual environment: This will simplify the environment for the user. Ignorance of useless objects makes the operation process efficient. In the abstraction process, if we use a predefined virtual environment (Figure 5a), it will be initialised when the application starts running. Otherwise we construct the new virtual environment, which happens when we use ViRAT to explore an unknown area for example. After construction of a virtual environment in accordance with the real environment, we can reuse the virtual environment whenever needed. Thus the virtual environment must be adaptable to different applications. ViRAT has an independent subsystem to get the current state information from real environment termed as ’tracking module’ in the previous section. The operator makes decisions based on the information perceived from the virtual environment. Because the operator does not need all the information from the tracking module, this abstraction module will optimise, abstract and represent the useful state information in real-time to user.