Current Events #1

Brian Velazquez                                                                                                                 Digital Design

            An article by Adam Conner-Simons "Teleoperating robots with virtual reality" discusses of an experiment conducted by researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). They presented a virtual reality system that lets you teleoperate a robot with the use of the oculus rift. The experiment takes the user into a VR control with multiple sensors so the user can match their movement to that of the robots so it will be able to complete various tasks. This system will also help blue-collar workers tele-commute and benefit such as white-collars do. There are two approaches in which the system can work. The first approach is a "direct" model in which the user's vision is directly coupled to the robot's state, the drawbacks are if there is a delayed signal it can cause nausea the user is only has one viewpoint as well. The second approach is the "cyber-physical" model, in which the user is separate from the robot. The user interacts with a virtual copy of the robot and the environment. The drawbacks of this approach is it requires much more data, and specialized spaces. CSAIL's system tested against state of the art systems showed that CSAIL's system was better at grasping objects 95 percent of the time and 57 percent faster at doing tasks. This will be a benefit for all workers. This contribution from the researchers from MIT's CSAIL is a big milestone in the effort to connect the user with the robot's space in an intuitive, natural, and effective manner.


ORIGINAL SOURCE OF INFORMATION: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/miot-trw100417.php

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