Approach of Team Avatar-Hubo to the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals
Baekseok Kim, Nathan Kassai, Zahir Abram Castrejon, Nicolas Kosanovic, Jean Chagas Vazi, Paul Oh · 2024
This paper presents Team Avatar-Hubo’s Avatar system designed for telepresence, along with our strategy to fulfill the testing task requirements in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals. Our system is built upon the foundation of DRC-Hubo and incorporates a VR Motion Tracker system, bi-directional audio feedback, visual feedback, haptic sensing, and navigation. During the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals evaluation, our proposed Avatar system achieved the 11th Place Award among a pool of 17 Finalists. We provide comprehensive insights into our Avatar System, including its Hardware-Software Architecture, capabilities in Auditory-Vision, manipulation, Texture perception, locomotion, and Interface. Furthermore, we extensively discuss the key lessons we learned during our participation in the competition.