Type of Publication: Article in Collected Edition

Opportunities and Challenges in Mixed-Reality for an Inclusive Human-Robot Collaboration Environment

Author(s):

Arévalo-Arboleda, Stephanie; Pascher, Max; Gerken, Jens

Title of Anthology:

Proceedings of the 2018 International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interactions (VAM-HRI) as part of the ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Location(s):

Chicago, USA

Publication Date:

2018

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Abstract

This paper presents an approach to enhance robot control using Mixed-Reality. It highlights the opportunities and challenges in the interaction design to achieve a Human-Robot Collaborative environment. In fact, Human-Robot Collaboration is the perfect space for social inclusion. It enables people, who suffer severe physical impairments, to interact with the environment by providing them movement control of an external robotic arm. Now, when discussing about robot control it is important to reduce the visual-split that different input and output modalities carry. Therefore, Mixed-Reality is of particular interest when trying to ease communication between humans and robotic systems.