A Virtual Reality Tool for Teleoperation Research

Efficiency in teleoperation systems is strongly affected by the relationship between the operator and the remote environment If the operator has access to easily comprehensible information, his capability for opportune decision making increases Virtual reality has been shown to be an effective means of displaying information to the human operator It allows the creation of three-dimensional and interactive environments, which can be explored and controlled in an intuitive way. In our system, called ASSET, we have applied virtual reality techniques in the design and implementation of a teleoperation system's human-machine interface. ASSET's objective was to create an object-oriented software framework for teleoperation systems development This tool allows flexible customizing and can be used as a test bed for evaluating interaction techniques, devices, simulation models and for research about autonomous agents.

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