Autonomous systems control aided by Virtual Teleportation of remote operator
Wojciech A. Moczulski · IFAC-PapersOnLine · 2022
Contemporary implementations of robotized systems concern ever more and more frequently autonomous robots. However, especially when operating in an unknown and dynamic environment, the mobile agent may be faced with a situation when its control system is unable to find the right solution to resolve the problem, which may result in getting stuck and breaking the mission. One of the possible solutions to this situation may be the implementation of Virtual Teleportation (VT) technology. Its idea consists in taking the control to the remote operator, who thanks to the innovative interface has the feeling as if he/she would immerse into the operating scene of the robotic system. That facilitates him/her controlling the system and allows him/her to solve the problem too difficult to cope with by the control system of the robotic agent on its own. Then the control is handed over to the autonomous system that continues the mission on its own. The paper deals with general issues concerning autonomy aided by VT. Moreover, examples of the applications of the new idea of control are given.