Effect of driving delay with an acoustical tele-presence robot, TeleHead

Author

Toshima, Iwaki ; Aoki, Shigeaki

Author_Institution

NTT Communication Science laboratories Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation Morinosato-Wakamiya 3-1 Atsugi-shi Kanagawa, Japan toshima@avg.brl.ntt.co.jp

fYear

2005

fDate

18-22 April 2005

Firstpage

56

Lastpage

61

Abstract

TeleHead is an acoustical tele-presence robot that has a user-like dummy head whose movement synchronizes with the listener’s head movement in real time. Here, we summarize the concept of TeleHead and suggest a learning effect for driving delay. The results show that even if there is 1-s delay in TeleHead’s movement, synchronization with the listener’s head movement is still effective. In addition, a user can adapt to even over 1-s delay for transmission without any feedback. This suggests a strong adaptability for delay, which can not be avoided in using tele-operated robots such as TeleHead.

Keywords

TeleHead; acoustical tele-presence; driving delay; sound localization; Acoustic measurements; Acoustic signal processing; Delay effects; Feedback; Laboratories; Loudspeakers; Robots; Telegraphy; Telephony; Transfer functions; TeleHead; acoustical tele-presence; driving delay; sound localization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 2005. ICRA 2005. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8914-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570096

Filename

1570096