Multiple camera image interface for operating mobile robot

Author

Matsumoto, Kohsei ; Ota, Jun ; Arai, Tamio

Author_Institution

Adv. Res. Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., Saitama, Japan

fYear

2003

fDate

31 Oct.-2 Nov. 2003

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper describes a human-robot interface for operating a mobile robot using multiple images provided by cameras distributed throughout locations. In a case that a human operates the robot recognizing wide working area with multi-displayed images, the image display method for human will be an important subject. To assist human recognition of the relationship between multi-displayed images from cam- eras located throughout wider unknown work areas, we designed the interface to have the following main features: 1) indication of overlap areas from cam- eras to support human recognition of working areas, 2) indication of rough routes for robot navigation to assist robot operation from captured images. Our experiments revealed the effectiveness of our interface and that of the whole robot system.

Keywords

cameras; computerised navigation; graphical user interfaces; image recognition; man-machine systems; mobile robots; path planning; captured images; human recognition; human-robot interface; image display methods; mobile robot; multidisplayed images; multiple camera image interface; robot navigation; robot systems; Cameras; Computational efficiency; Displays; Humans; Image recognition; Mobile robots; Navigation; Orbital robotics; Robot sensing systems; Robot vision systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2003. Proceedings. ROMAN 2003. The 12th IEEE International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8136-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.2003.1251767

Filename

1251767