Comparing the Usefulness of Video and Map Information in Navigation Tasks.

Nielsen, C. W. ; Goodrich, M. A.

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关键词: Navigation;    Robots;    Video signals;    Maps;    Humans;   

RP-ID  :  DE2008911195

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

One of the fundamental aspects of robot teleoperation is the ability to successfully navigate a robot through an environment. We define successful navigation to mean that the robot minimizes collisions and arrives at the destination in a timely manner. Often video and map information is presented to a robot operator to aid in navigation tasks. This paper addresses the usefulness of map and video information in a navigation task by comparing a side-by-side (2D) representation and an integrated (3D) representation in both a simulated and a real world study. The results suggest that sometimes video is more helpful than a map and other times a map is more helpful than video. From a design perspective, an integrated representation seems to help navigation more than placing map and video side-by-side.