How to control a multi-robot system by means of projective virtual reality

Abstract

Smart man machine interfaces turn out to be a key technology for robot applications in industrial environments as well as in future scenarios for robot applications in space for internal and external servicing. For either field, the use of virtual reality techniques showed a great potential. At the IRF a virtual reality system was developed and implemented during the last two years which allows the intuitive control of a multi-robot system. The general aim of the development was to provide the general framework for projective virtual reality which allows to project actions that are carried out by users in the virtual world into the real world with the help of robots.