Natural user interface for Roombots

Ayberk Özgur, Stéphane Bonardi, Massimo Vespignani, Rico Möckel, Auke J Ijspeert

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Abstract

Roombots (RB) are self-reconfigurable modular robots designed to study robotic reconfiguration on a structured grid and adaptive locomotion off grid. One of the main goals of this platform is to create adaptive furniture inside living spaces such as homes or offices. To ease the control of RB modules in these environments, we propose a novel and more natural way of interaction with the RB modules on a RB grid, called the Natural Roombots User Interface. In our method, the user commands the RB modules using pointing gestures. The user's body is tracked using multiple Kinects. The user is also given real-time visual feedback of their physical actions and the state of the system via LED illumination electronics installed on both RB modules and the grid. We demonstrate how our interface can be used to efficiently control RB modules on simple point-to-point grid locomotion and conclude by discussing future extensions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRobot and Human Interactive Communication, 2014 RO-MAN: The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on
Pages12-17
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014

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