A Personal User Interface for Collaborative Human-Robot Exploration

Human-robot collaboration has significant potential to improve planetary missions. Specifically, by enabling humans and planetary rovers to work together in the field we can greatly increase mission productivity while reducing cost, particularly for surface operations such as material t ransport, s urvey, sampling, a nd i n-situ s ite characterization. Thus, we are developing a personal user interface to enable EVA crew members and mobile robots to collaborate and jointly perform tasks in the field. In this paper we describe the motivation for our work, present the design and implementation of our user interface, and discuss our planned field testing methodology.

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