Digital Total - Computing & Data Science an der Universität Hamburg und in der Wissenschaftsmetropole Hamburg

Redirected Walks through the European XFEL

4

Nicht eingeplant

20m

Von-Melle-Park 4

Poster

Beschreibung

At modern particle accelerators, robots are playing an increasingly important role in facility inspection and maintenance to significantly improve the working conditions of technicians and scientists. Robot teleoperation using virtual reality (VR) technology offers a faster, more accurate, and more secure way to teleoperate robots in hazardous environments. Therefore, VR interaction techniques are required that support natural and direct movement controls. Redirected walking (RDW) is a VR locomotion technique that enables free natural walking in confined real world tracking spaces by imperceptibly guiding the user on paths in the real world that differ from those perceived in the virtual environment.

We integrated RDW algorithms into a robotic platform and evaluated this setup in a maintenance task at DESY’s accelerator tunnels.

Keywords

Virtual Reality
Human-Robot-Interaction
Teleoperation