Intuitive Spatial Tactile Feedback for Better Awareness about Robot Trajectory during Human-Robot Collaboration

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989100%3A27230%2F21%3A10247904" target="_blank" >RIV/61989100:27230/21:10247904 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/s21175748" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/s21175748</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21175748" target="_blank" >10.3390/s21175748</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Intuitive Spatial Tactile Feedback for Better Awareness about Robot Trajectory during Human-Robot Collaboration

Original language description

In this work, we extend the previously proposed approach of improving mutual perception during human-robot collaboration by communicating the robot&apos;s motion intentions and status to a human worker using hand-worn haptic feedback devices. The improvement is presented by introducing spatial tactile feedback, which provides the human worker with more intuitive information about the currently planned robot&apos;s trajectory, given its spatial configuration. The enhanced feedback devices communicate directional information through activation of six tactors spatially organised to represent an orthogonal coordinate frame: the vibration activates on the side of the feedback device that is closest to the future path of the robot. To test the effectiveness of the improved human-machine interface, two user studies were prepared and conducted. The first study aimed to quantitatively evaluate the ease of differentiating activation of individual tactors of the notification devices. The second user study aimed to assess the overall usability of the enhanced notification mode for improving human awareness about the planned trajectory of a robot. The results of the first experiment allowed to identify the tactors for which vibration intensity was most often confused by users. The results of the second experiment showed that the enhanced notification system allowed the participants to complete the task faster and, in general, improved user awareness of the robot&apos;s movement plan, according to both objective and subjective data. Moreover, the majority of participants (82%) favoured the improved notification system over its previous non-directional version and vision-based inspection.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20204 - Robotics and automatic control

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF17_049%2F0008425" target="_blank" >EF17_049/0008425: A Research Platform focused on Industry 4.0 and Robotics in Ostrava Agglomeration</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sensors. Vol. 20

ISSN

1424-8220

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

17

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000694474900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85113433571