Development of the Interface Cooperating with Operator’s Embodiment

Abstract

This paper presents an interface to operate a locomotion robot as if users grasp it. The interface is a gimbal structure and has 6 degree of freedom. User can control the robot’s velocity at XYZ and the posture at Pitch, Yaw and Roll using the interface. The participants operated a drone by the developed interface or iPhone when we measured the success rate, achievement time and brain activation. As results, the amateur showed the improvement of the success rate and prefrontal cortex’s activation. Furthermore, both amateur and professional showed the improvement of achievement time and intraparietal sulcus’s activation. We concluded that the developed interface would be easy to master the operation and intuitive.