Abstract
In this paper, we introduce an immersive teleoperating system for an unmanned helicopter and an AR-based assistance system for searching disaster victims. In this system, an operator carries a backpack with a laptop PC and controls the helicopter remotely while watching a surrounding view of the helicopter through a head mounted display (HMD). Virtual buildings and textual annotations assist the search operation of disaster victims indicating the position to search rapidly and intensively. The position and the attitude of the helicopter is measured by a GPS and a gyroscope, and transmitted to the operator's PC via a wireless LAN. Using this system, we conducted experiments to find persons and verified the feasibility.
