VIRTUAL INTERFACE WITH GUARDED TELEOPERATION CONTROL OF MULTIPLE HETEROGENEOUS ROBOTS

The objective is to develop a human-multiple robot system that is optimized for teams of heterogeneous robots control. A new human-robot system permits to ease the execution of remote tasks. An operator can efficiently control the physical multi-robots using the high level command, Drag-to-Move method, on the virtual interface. The innovative virtual interface has been integrated with Augmented Reality that is able to track the location and sensory information from the video feed of ground and aerial robots in the virtual and real environment. The advanced feature of the virtual interface is guarded teleoperation that can be used to prevent operators from accidently driving multiple robots into walls and other objects.