Experience of using a haptic interface to follow a robot without visual feedback

Ayan Ghosh, Jacques Penders, Peter E Jones, Heath Reed
2014 The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication  
Search and rescue operations are often undertaken in smoke filled and noisy environments in which rescue teams must rely on haptic feedback for navigation and safe exit. In this paper, we discuss designing and evaluating a haptic interface to enable a human being to follow a robot through an environment with no-visibility. We first discuss the considerations that have led to our current interface design. The second part of the paper describes our testing procedure and the results of our first
more » ... sts. Based on these results we discuss future improvements of our design. Keywords -human robot interaction; haptic interface; support for no-visibility/visually impaired I.
doi:10.1109/roman.2014.6926274 dblp:conf/ro-man/GhoshPJR14 fatcat:w3f2yuhh6zbkjcw7whg5tyv3cy