Immersion Type Virtual Environment for Human-robot Interaction

Abstract – With the development of information sci-ence and robotic technology, it becomes more important to generate human interactive robots. The design plat-form for developing such robots should satisfy three ba-sic conditions: (1) It can test safely the performance of the robot through the physical interaction with hu-man, (2) Human subject can estimate subjectively the outside appearance of the robot, and (3) It can simu-late the dynamic human interactive robot motion within real-time. This paper proposes our immersion type dy-namic simulation platform. An application to estimate the robot’s performance when performing cooperative ob-ject lifting task with human subject is chosen in order to show the effectiveness of our system. The analysis of the recorded data is useful to design the novel human interactive robots