テレイグジスタンスロボットにおける身体表現機能のVR拡張

抄録

This paper reports the system visualizing bodily gestures of the user operating a surrogate robot. The conceptual core of telexistence explains that a human-like robot equipping with various substitute devices of human functions can be used as the surrogate body of human (i.e. avatar). Although a 3-DOF robot-head can provide the basic functions of telexistence, these robots have limited capacity to express bodily gestures performed by the robot's user. Here, we propose the bodily expression capacity expansion method by using virtual reality to realize remote embodied communication.