A research group at the University of Tokyo and Keio University has used a wearable robot to work on the body of another person from a remote location, and can communicate by manipulating the body of another person like a two-person haori. Fusion) ”was developed.
Communication linked to physical information plays an important role in the transmission of skills and knowledge through collaborative work.For example, in a situation such as skill learning including physical movement, the trainer directly moves and adjusts the position and posture of the learner's limbs, or guides the movement by pulling a hand.
However, between remote locations, sharing movements is limited to visual information, making communication and collaboration difficult.Therefore, in this research, we focused on sharing the viewpoints of distant others, and developed a remote collaborative work system that creates communication with physical information by a wearable robot system such as Nininbaori.
In this system, a remote operator and a robot wearer share a space from almost the same viewpoint, Directed (direct collaboration), Enforced (movement instruction), and Induced (movement guidance). You can communicate through the three types of body. With the Directed type, you can collaborate using a robot hand. In the Enforced type, the position and posture of the wearer's hand can be moved by replacing the attachment of the robot arm with a wrist band. In the Induced type, walking can be guided in the target direction by pulling the wearer with the robot arm.
The system is expected to be applied to collaborative work and skill learning through the body in geographically distant situations.
Paper information:[SIGGRAPH '18 ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Emerging Technologies] Fusion – Full Body Surrogacy for Collaborative Communication
