Hyper Scooter: a mobile robot sharing visual information with a human

Abstract

Presents a practical mobile robot system, called Hyper Scooter, which a human can ride on, and share access to the environment through visual information. The advantage of these capabilities is significant. A user can give his/her instructions to the robot without skillful programming operations. This is supported by the authors' high speed tracking vision system. To show the advantage, a complex task is presented as an example. After being instructed the way to accomplish the task by a human, Hyper Scooter does it without explicit environmental models.