Augmented robotic telepresence (ART): A prototype for enhancing remote interaction and participation

Reyes-Cruz, Gisela, Phypers, Isaac, Boudouraki, Andriana, Price, Dominic, Fischer, Joel, Reeves, Stuart, Galvez Trigo, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6492-0955 and Maior, Horia 2023. Augmented robotic telepresence (ART): A prototype for enhancing remote interaction and participation. Presented at: First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Edinburgh, UK, 11-12 July 2023. TAS '23: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1-6. 10.1145/3597512.3597532

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Abstract

Mobile robotic telepresence (MRP) allows remote users’ access and mobility in a range of local environments. MRP devices have been adopted in societally significant domains such as workplaces, museums, commerce, education, and healthcare, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic to provide accessibility to these spaces when physical attendance was precluded. Although telepresence robots have autonomous systems features such as collision avoidance, they do not typically allow for physical manipulation of the environment, so they have been found to engender limited trustworthiness and have yet to achieve widespread adoption. This work presents a prototype exploring the potential of Augmented Robotic Telepresence (ART) to improve on inclusion, accessibility, and independence provided to remote users of MRP, broadening the space for interaction and participation, by augmenting affordances in the local environment via techniques such as Augmented Reality (AR), Internet of Things (IoT), and remote actuation. Herein we describe the ART prototype developed thus far, which is built on top of a commercial MRP robot, the Double 3 by Double Robotics; we elaborate on the ART prototype design, its implementation, and current capabilities. Lastly, we describe our research plans, including design workshops with museum stakeholders, and point towards directions for future work.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Computer Science & Informatics
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General)
Publisher:	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN:	979-8-4007-0734-6
Funders:	EPSRC EP/V00784X/1
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	6 July 2023
Date of Acceptance:	23 May 2023
Last Modified:	24 Jul 2023 11:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/160828

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