Publication Details
Combining Interactive Spatial Augmented Reality with Head-Mounted Display for End-User Collaborative Robot Programming
Materna Zdeněk, Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Kapinus Michal, Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Beran Vítězslav, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Smrž Pavel, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Spatial Augmented Reality, Head-Mounted Display, Microsoft HoloLens,
Collaborative Robots, Robot Programming, Human-Robot Interaction
This paper proposes an intuitive approach for collaborative robot end-user
programming using a combination of interactive spatial augmented reality (ISAR)
and head-mounted display (HMD). It aims to reduce user's workload and to let the
user program the robot faster than in classical approaches (e.g. kinesthetic
teaching). The proposed approach, where user is using a mixed-reality HMD -
Microsoft HoloLens - and touch-enabled table with SAR projected interface as
input devices, is compared to a baseline approach, where robot's arms and
a touch-enabled table are used as input devices only. Main advantages of the
proposed approach are the possibility to program the collaborative workspace
without the presence of the robot, its speed in comparison to the kinesthetic
teaching and an ability to quickly visualize learned program instructions, in
form of virtual objects, to enhance the users' orientation within those programs.
The approach was evaluated on a set of 20 users using the within-subject
experiment design. Evaluation consisted of two pick and place tasks, where users
had to start from the scratch as well as to update the existing program. Based on
the experiment results, the proposed approach is better in qualitative measures
by 33.84% and by 28.46% in quantitative measures over the baseline approach for
both tasks.
@inproceedings{BUT161453,
author="Daniel {Bambušek} and Zdeněk {Materna} and Michal {Kapinus} and Vítězslav {Beran} and Pavel {Smrž}",
title="Combining Interactive Spatial Augmented Reality with Head-Mounted Display for End-User Collaborative Robot Programming",
booktitle="2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)",
year="2019",
pages="1--9",
publisher="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
address="New Delhi",
doi="10.1109/RO-MAN46459.2019.8956315",
isbn="978-1-7281-2622-7",
url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/12007/"
}