Vibrotactile information for supporting pick and place task using industrial robot remote operation

Abstract

This paper evaluates a wristband-type tactile interface as a user interface for controlling an industrial robot remotely. When operating a remote monitoring system, information delivery from a local site to an operator at a remote site is important. Visual and auditory feedback is often used. However, perception of the information might be limited if different kinds of information in particular sense modality is delivered at the same time. To solve the problem, we proposed a tactile interface which uses tactile information and we evaluate it. First, we explain the remote operation system for industrial robot and interface, then after that, we present an experiment of vibrotactile information of industrial robot.