Abstract
Robots are expected to become an essential part in tackling the global corona virus pandemic. However, acquiring robotic technology in economically-challenged nations is very difficult for a variety of factors. This work aims at developing a low-cost Telexistence systems that can be used for remote manipulation. We propose a system comprising components on the local site, which comprise a commonly available VR headset, a tracking system and a 3D-printed haptic exoskeleton. The remote site comprises a small robot arm. We discuss the implementation specifics of our approach. We evaluated our system by comparing usability and performance in two tasks while using the VR headset and a monitor. Users were able to complete the two tasks successfully with our system. Moreover, results show superiority of the VR headset, however, the screen also show promising results, and thereby offer a cheaper deployment option.
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This paper was jointly supported by Qatar University M-QJRC-2020-7. The findings achieved herein are solely the responsibility of the authors.
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Al-Remaihi, R., Al-Raeesi, A., Al-Kubaisi, R., Al-Sada, M., Nakajima, T., Halabi, O. (2021). A Cost-Effective Immersive Telexistence Platform for Generic Telemanipulation Tasks. In: Stephanidis, C., et al. HCI International 2021 - Late Breaking Papers: Multimodality, eXtended Reality, and Artificial Intelligence. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13095. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90963-5_16
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