Publication detail

Interactive Spatial Augmented Reality in Collaborative Robot Programming: User Experience Evaluation

MATERNA, Z. KAPINUS, M. BERAN, V. SMRŽ, P. ZEMČÍK, P.

Original Title

Interactive Spatial Augmented Reality in Collaborative Robot Programming: User Experience Evaluation

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach to interaction between human workers and industrial collaborative robots. The proposed approach address problems introduced by existing solutions for robot programming. It aims to reduce the mental demands and attention switches by centering all interaction into a shared workspace, combining various modalities and enabling interaction with the system without any external devices. The concept allows simple programming in a form of setting program parameters using a spatial augmented reality for visualization and a touch-enabled table and robot arms as input devices. The final solution is distraction-free, usable and low effort interface for effective human-robot collaboration, enabling any ordinary skilled worker to customize robot program to changes in production or to personal (e.g. ergonomic) needs. We evaluated the concept utilizing a user experience study with six participants (shop-floor workers). All participants were able to program the robot and to collaborate with it using the program they parametrized.

Keywords

spatial augmented reality, collaborative robots, programming, human-robot interaction, user experience

Authors

MATERNA, Z.; KAPINUS, M.; BERAN, V.; SMRŽ, P.; ZEMČÍK, P.

Released

6. 11. 2018

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Location

NanJing

ISBN

978-1-5386-7980-7

Book

RO-MAN 2018 - 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

Pages from

80

Pages to

87

Pages count

8

URL

https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/11619/

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT155004,
  author="Zdeněk {Materna} and Michal {Kapinus} and Vítězslav {Beran} and Pavel {Smrž} and Pavel {Zemčík}",
  title="Interactive Spatial Augmented Reality in Collaborative Robot Programming: User Experience Evaluation",
  booktitle="RO-MAN 2018 - 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication",
  year="2018",
  pages="80--87",
  publisher="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
  address="NanJing",
  doi="10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525662",
  isbn="978-1-5386-7980-7",
  url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/11619/"
}

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