Annotation-based rescue assistance system for teleoperated unmanned helicopter with wearable augmented reality environment

We introduce an annotation-based rescue assistance system for a teleoperated unmanned helicopter with an wearable augmented reality (AR) environment. In this system, an operator controls the helicopter remotely while watching an annotated view from the helicopter through a head mounted display (HMD) with a laptop PC in a backpack. Virtual buildings and textual annotations assist the rescue operation indicating the position to search rapidly and intensively. The position and the attitude of the helicopter is measured by a GPS and a gyroscope, and sent to the operator´s PC via a wireless LAN. Using this system, we conducted experiments to find persons and verified the feasibility.