Demo: I Am a Robot: First-person Robotic Arm Control with Hand Motions in Virtual Reality

Emory Meursing, Zeyu Deng, Jordan Fogg, Long Huang, Huaxia Wang, Chen Wang

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Abstract

With the rapidly growing virtual reality (VR) technologies, maturing motion tracking applications, and the advancement in robotics, physically interacting with the remote world via a robot while the user is observing the scene through a VR headset seems to be one solution to the substantial need for telepresence. This work presents a first-person viewing hand motion controlled robotic arm framework that provides an immersive robot control experience. In particular, we developed a platform with an off-the-shelf 360° camera, a robotic arm, and a VR headset to allow for live 360° video streaming, hand tracking, and robotic arm control. Demo activities with three types of robot operation tasks (i.e., in-air drawing, object collection, and line tracing) show that our platform enables an enhanced first-person vision presence and a smooth robot teleoperation.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationUbiComp/ISWC 2022 Adjunct - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages85-87
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781450394239
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 24 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2022 - Cambridge, United Kingdom
Duration: Sep 11 2022Sep 15 2022

Publication series

NameUbiComp/ISWC 2022 Adjunct - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Conference

Conference2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityCambridge
Period9/11/229/15/22

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software

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