Haptic Guidance in Urban Search and Rescue Scenarios with Reduced Visibility |
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| Stefano Scheggi, Gionata Salvietti |
- Abstract:
- The use of robots in Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) has been widely studied in the last two decades. This scenario offers a unique opportunity to investigate Human Robot Interaction (HRI) in unstructured environments. In this paper, we present a possible paradigm of communication between human and robot based on haptic guidance. In particular, we developed a HRI framework in which the human agent is guided by a robot through a vibrating bracelet. The robot has on-board the necessary sensors to localize itself on a map or to build a new map in case of debris or collapsed walls. Moreover, the robot can localize the human position using a RGB-D camera (e.g., the kinect sensor) and generate commands for the haptic guidance. This approach could be particularly suited in case of reduced visibility.
- Keywords:
- Haptic guidance, Robotic Search and Rescue, human robot cooperation
- Download:
- IMEKO-TC4-2014-358.pdf
- DOI:
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- Event details
- IMEKO TC:
- TC4
- Event name:
- TC4 Symposium 2014
- Title:
20th IMEKO TC4 Symposium on Measurements of Electrical Quantities (together with 18th TC4 International Workshop on ADC and DCA Modeling and Testing, IWADC)
"Research on Electrical and Electronic Measurement for the Economic Upturn"- Place:
- Benevento, ITALY
- Time:
- 15 September 2014 - 17 September 2014