Teleoperation platform for multimodal experimentation

This paper describes the design strategy of an experimental platform which works as a test bed for teleoperation. It studies the performance of the executed tasks with different configurations and settings. The two key elements of a teleoperation interface are haptics and video perception. They inform the operator about the status of the remote or virtual environment. Specific hardware has been developed for both interactions as explained in the paper. These specific hardware components allow studying different control scheme for haptic devices and visual stereoscopic images on a computer screen. Results of the tests to this date are shown at the end and up-coming experiments are proposed.