A vision system with wide field of view and collision alarms for teleoperation of mobile robots

Abstract

Vision systems are an important component to teleoperate mobile robots. We previously proposed a vision system with a wide field of view by combining the camera images of two cameras. This paper describes the features of our vision system that are useful for teleoperation, and we propose attachment devices for our system. The proposed devices are used to visualize the risk of collisions to the operator of robots. We performed two experiments to evaluate our vision system and the proposed devices.