1The Human Role in Telerobotics

Summary. This chapter introduces the main topics of a telerobotic system. It de-scribes the architecture of such a system from a general point of view and emphasizes the interaction between a human operator and a robot that performs the task in the remote environment. Furthermore it focuses on multi-modal human system interfaces and explains the main features of haptic, auditory, and visual interfaces. Finally im-portant issues for the measurement and evaluation of the attribute telepresence are described. 1.