Symmetric Evaluation of Multimodal Human–Robot Interaction with Gaze and Standard Control

Autor: Ethan R. Jones, Winyu Chinthammit, Weidong Huang, Ulrich Engelke, Christopher Lueg
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Symmetry, Vol 10, Iss 12, p 680 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2073-8994
DOI: 10.3390/sym10120680
Popis: Control of robot arms is often required in engineering and can be performed by using different methods. This study examined and symmetrically compared the use of a controller, eye gaze tracker and a combination thereof in a multimodal setup for control of a robot arm. Tasks of different complexities were defined and twenty participants completed an experiment using these interaction modalities to solve the tasks. More specifically, there were three tasks: the first was to navigate a chess piece from a square to another pre-specified square; the second was the same as the first task, but required more moves to complete; and the third task was to move multiple pieces to reach a solution to a pre-defined arrangement of the pieces. Further, while gaze control has the potential to be more intuitive than a hand controller, it suffers from limitations with regard to spatial accuracy and target selection. The multimodal setup aimed to mitigate the weaknesses of the eye gaze tracker, creating a superior system without simply relying on the controller. The experiment shows that the multimodal setup improves performance over the eye gaze tracker alone ( p < 0.05 ) and was competitive with the controller only setup, although did not outperform it ( p > 0.05 ).
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals
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