Collaborative telepresence workspaces for space operation and science

Author

Roberts, David J. ; Garcia, Arturo S. ; Dodiya, Janki ; Wolff, Robin ; Fairchild, Allen J. ; Fernando, Terrence

Author_Institution

Univ. of Salford, Salford, UK

fYear

2015

fDate

23-27 March 2015

Firstpage

275

Lastpage

276

Abstract

We introduce the collaborative telepresence workspaces for SPACE operation and science that are under development in the European research project CROSS DRIVE. The vision is to give space mission controllers and scientists the impression of “beaming” to the surface of Mars, along with simulations of the environment and equipment, to step out together where a robot has or may move. We briefly overview the design and describe the state of the demonstrator. The contribution of the publication is to give an example of how collaborative Virtual Reality research is being taken up in space science.

Keywords

Mars; astronomy computing; groupware; planetary surfaces; space research; virtual reality; CROSS DRIVE; European research project; Mars surface; collaborative telepresence workspace; collaborative virtual reality research; robot; space mission controllers; space operation; space science; Aerospace electronics; Avatars; Collaboration; Data visualization; Mars; Three-dimensional displays; Avatar; Collaborative Immersive Virtual Environments; Space Missions; Telepresence; Terrain Visualization; Video Based Reconstruction; Virtual Environments; Virtual Reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual Reality (VR), 2015 IEEE

Conference_Location

Arles

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VR.2015.7223402

Filename

7223402