Head-Mounted Display Robot Navigation via Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing robotic systems require complex and expensive hardware and software to navigate and interact with environments, making them inaccessible to low to mid-range robots, and lack effective means to display and interpret information about the robot's surroundings and actions.
Innovation Solution
The use of a head-mounted display (HMD) equipped with sensors to detect environmental parameters and generate instructions for a mobile robot, enabling it to navigate and interact with obstacles while providing a mixed reality display for improved understanding and control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If complex hardware and software are used for robot navigation and environment interaction, then navigation accuracy and task performance are improved, but device cost and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides navigation functionality into two segments: a simple mobile robot executing tasks and a separate HMD device performing complex environment mapping and path calculation. This segmentation allows the robot to remain simple while achieving accurate navigation through the HMD's computational capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The HMD acts as an intermediary between the user and the robot, serving as an external brain that processes environmental data and generates navigation instructions. The robot follows simple instructions from this intermediary rather than containing complex navigation software itself.
2Ease of operation
If display panels and input mechanisms are added to robots for monitoring and control, then user interaction capability is improved, but device cost and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the display and control functions with the HMD device that the user already wears. The HMD's display shows robot status and environment information, while its sensors provide input data, eliminating the need for separate robot-mounted displays and control panels.
Solution Approach 2:
The HMD serves dual purposes: it is both the user interface for controlling the robot and the sensing device for environmental perception. This self-service approach consolidates multiple functions into a single device the user already possesses.
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AI summary
Concepts and technologies are described herein for providing enhanced configuration and control of robots. Configurations disclosed herein augment a mobile computing device, such as a robot, with resources for understanding and navigation of an environment surrounding the computing device. The resources can include sensors of a separate computing device, which may be in the form of a head-mounted display. Data produced by the resources can be used to generate instructions for the mobile computing device. The sensors of the separate computing device can also detect a change in an environment or a conflict in the actions of the mobile computing device, and dynamically modify the generated instructions. By the use of the techniques disclosed herein, a simple, low-cost robot can understand and navigate through a complex environment and appropriately interact with obstacles and other objects.