Vibrotactile Feedback for Enhanced Control of Urban Search and Rescue Robots

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  • John Sibert
  • Jeff Cooper
  • Christopher Covington
  • Aleksandar Stefanovski
  • Darby Thompson
  • Robert W. Lindeman
چکیده

This paper describes a method of enhancing feedback for Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) robot operators through the use of a wearable vibrotactile display. The display provides vibrotactile feedback corresponding to sensor data collected by the robot. A USAR robot may be equipped with a variety of sensors including proximity, temperature, motion, and many others. The system described here is intended to enable a series of empirical studies aimed at evaluating this use of vibrotactile display.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007