Development and Test of the Remote Operator Visual Support System Based on Virtual Environment

가상환경기반 원격작업자 시각지원시스템 개발 및 시험

  • 송태길 (한국원자력연구원, 핵주기시스템공학기술개발부/정보통신팀) ;
  • 박병석 (한국원자력연구원, 핵주기시스템공학기술개발부) ;
  • 최경현 (제주대학교, 기계에너지시스템공학부) ;
  • 이상호 (충북대학교, 전기전자컴퓨터공학부)
  • Published : 2008.12.31

Abstract

With a remote operated manipulator system, the situation at a remote site can be rendered through remote visualized image to the operator. Then the operator can quickly realize situations and control the slave manipulator by operating a master input device based on the information of the virtual image. In this study, the remote operator visual support system (ROVSS) was developed for viewing support of a remote operator to perform the remote task effectively. A visual support model based on virtual environment was also inserted and used to fulfill the need of this study. The framework for the system was created by Windows API based on PC and the library of 3D graphic simulation tool such as ENVISION. To realize this system, an operation test environment for a limited operating site was constructed by using experimental robot operation. A 3D virtual environment was designed to provide accurate information about the rotation of robot manipulator, the location and distance of operation tool through the real time synchronization. In order to show the efficiency of the visual support, we conducted the experiments by four methods such as the direct view, the camera view, the virtual view and camera view plus virtual view. The experimental results show that the method of camera view plus virtual view has about 30% more efficiency than the method of camera view.

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