Evaluating Lightweight Contact Feedback in Dual-Operator Collaborative Humanoid Teleoperation

Key points

• Dual-operator humanoid teleoperation enables collaborative manipulation through two separate robots, but operators lack direct awareness of robot-object contact that is normally available during physical interaction.1
• Sixteen dyads performed a collaborative crate lift-and-flip under vision only and the three feedback conditions in a counterbalanced within-subject design with verified feedback-channel delivery.1
• Exploratory analyses detected no difference in immediate grip or motion responses between feedback conditions.1
• For novice collaborative teleoperation, our fingertip vibrotactile cues were rated more effective and easier to interpret than our auditory cues, while their effect on task performance remains unresolved.1

Sources (1)

• [1]Evaluating Lightweight Contact Feedback in Dual-Operator Collaborative Humanoid Teleoperation
  arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 16, 09:32 PM

  To address this, we present eXtended Reality Teleoperation (XRT), an extended reality teleoperation framework that returns a robot's fingertip contact through lightweight vibrotactile and/or auditory feedback, and a synchronized dual-humanoid testbed built on it for two operators.

  Dual-operator humanoid teleoperation enables collaborative manipulation through two separate robots, but operators lack direct awareness of robot-object contact that is normally available during physical interaction.

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