Robot Mediated Tele-presence through Body Motion Based Control

In this paper, we propose a 1st person view and body motion based control method realized on a smart phone/pad called the Sprint (Smart Phone/Pad and Robot for Teleoperation and Tele-presence). The smart phone/pad is chosen, aside from its ubiquity and wide usage, for its mobility and rich media (sensor/display) capabilities. The key idea of Sprint is to have the operator control and interact by "posing" as the robot in the remote area in hopes of eliciting a high sense of tele-presence and thereby promoting the spatial task performance and the overall interactive experience. In particular, we demonstrate a remote robot viewing control method based on this design principle and validate that the proposed approach does improve the sense of tele-presence and spatial understanding.