Human-Robot-Interfaces based on Mixed Reality for Underwater Robot Teleoperation

Christophe Domingues (1) , Mouna Essabbah (1) , Nader Cheaib (1) , Samir Otmane (1) , Alain Dinis (2)

1 IBISC - Informatique, Biologie Intégrative et Systèmes Complexes
2 VirtualDive

In this paper, we present two Human-Robot interfaces for underwater robot teleoperation. This work is in the context of the Digital Ocean Europe project1 that aims at digitalizing seafloor sites in 3D imagery using underwater robots (ROVs), and uses this information in order to edit interactive, virtually animated environments that are diffused online. The work presented in this paper concerns the 1) Web interface installed on an aquatic PC called DOLPHYN and 2) a VR/AR semi-immersive platform. Both interfaces are used for remote exploration of underwater sites. We discuss their technical implementation for underwater robot teleoperation (ROV).

Keywords: Teleoperation; ROV; Underwater; Distributed Architecture; Virtual Reality; Augmented Reality; Assistance to 3D interaction

Domains: Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC]; Robotics [cs.RO]

Christophe Domingues, Mouna Essabbah, Nader Cheaib, Samir Otmane, Alain Dinis. Human-Robot-Interfaces based on Mixed Reality for Underwater Robot Teleoperation. 9th IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft (MCMC 2012), Sep 2012, Arenzano, Italy. pp.212--215, ⟨10.3182/20120919-3-IT-2046.00036⟩. ⟨hal-00761894⟩