Subject: Army Research Lab Interactive Demo (TODAY)



Description:

Robots operating alongside humans in field environments have the potential

to greatly increase the situational awareness of their human teammates.  A

significant challenge, however, is the efficient conveyance of what the robot

perceives to  the human in order to achieve improved situational awareness.

We believe augmented reality (AR), which allows a human to simultaneously

perceive the real world and digital information  situated virtually in the

real world, has the potential to address this issue.



Motivated by the emerging prevalence of practical human-wearable AR devices,

we present a system that enables a robot to perform cooperative search with a

human teammate,  where the robot can both share search results and assist the

human teammate in navigation to the search target.  We demonstrate this

ability in a search task   in an instrumented environment  where the robot

differentiates over multiple possible search targets,  and provides

navigation direction via AR to bring the human to the correct target.



Sponsored by the AR Club



Motivated by the emerging prevalence of practical human-wearable AR devices,

we present a system that enables a robot to perform cooperative search with a

human teammate,  where the robot can both share search results and assist the

human teammate in navigation to the search target.  We demonstrate this

ability in a search task   in an instrumented environment  where the robot

differentiates over multiple possible search targets,  and provides

navigation direction via AR to bring the human to the correct target.



Event Date: May 8, 2018

Event Start Time: 5:30 pm

Event End Time: 6:30 pm

Event Location: CSIC 1115

Contact Person: Emily Gong

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