Time Follower's Vision: a teleoperation interface with past images

Abstract

Time-Followers's Vision is a mixed-reality-based visual presentation system that captures a robotic vehicle's size, position, and environment, allowing even inexperienced operators to easily control it. The technique produces a virtual image using mixed reality technology and presents the vehicle's surrounding environment and status to the operator. Therefore, even for inexperienced operators, the vehicle's position and orientation and the surrounding situation can be readily understood. The authors implement a prototype system and evaluate its feasibility. This article is available with a short video documentary on CD-ROM.