Jackal UGV robot from Clearpath Robotics Inc. (left) and a gaming joystick (right).

Jackal UGV robot from Clearpath Robotics Inc. (left) and a gaming joystick (right).

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While teleoperated robots continue to proliferate in domains including search and rescue, field exploration, or the military, human error remains a primary cause for accidents or mistakes. One challenge is that teleoperating a remote robot is cognitively taxing as the operator needs to understand the robot's state and monitor all its sensor data. I...

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... use the Jackal UGV robot (Fig. 11, left), built by Clearpath Robotics Inc., which is 43cm wide, 51cm long, and 25cm tall, and about 17 kg. The robot is running on ROS ...
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... use a PC with two monitors, a 28-inch UHD monitor for our teleoperation interface and a 24-inch FHD monitor to show the map. A participant controls Jackal using a gaming joystick (jet fighter replica gaming joystick, Fig. 11, right). The monitor is about 65cm far from the participant, the keyboard and mouse are located on the keyboard tray under the desk and the joystick is placed on the desk; however, we allow the participant to change the initial desk setup for their ...

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