Dual Body: Method of Tele-Cooperative Avatar Robot with Passive Sensation Feedback to Reduce Latency Perception

Abstract

Dual Body was developed to be a telexistence or telepresence system, one in which the user does not need to continuously operate an avatar robot but is still able to passively perceive feedback sensations when the robot performs actions. This system can recognize user speech commands, and the robot performs the task cooperatively. The system that we propose, in which passive sensation feedback and cooperation of the robot are used, highly reduces the perception of latency and the feeling of fatigue, which increases the quality of experience and task efficiency. In the demo experience, participants will be able to command the robot from individual rooms via a URL and RoomID, and they will perceive sound and visual feedback, such as images or landscapes of the campus of Tokyo Metropolitan University, from the robot as it travels.