This technology turns robots into human "Avatar" 【Full Text】

Network Security Technology Exhibition dynamic Did you ever think, in the future people can stay at home will be able to "personally" go anywhere, "personally" accomplish anything? Today, such fantasy is becoming a reality! And it depends on the robot.

Recently, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a research result on humanoid robots, saying that researchers have successfully developed a robot called HERMES. People can manipulate the robot freely by wearing a remote control "vest". Thereby completing various complex tasks.

From the video given by MIT, the researchers put on a teleoperation "vest" that is wirelessly connected to the robot's body, not only can the robot be kept standing like a person, but also use its own actions to remotely control the robot to complete the "strike ax smash" "Door" and other operations can be called the realistic version of "Steel Armor".

According to researchers, the reason for using such a "teleoperation" form as a robot controller is not to replace the current automatic controller like a legged robot, but only to let the robot complete some with the assistance of humans. Specific tasks that cannot be determined by oneself, such as going deep into the scene of a fire to rescue.

In recent years, fire hazards are invading the world, and even Notre Dame de Paris is suffering from fire. Although we have made some progress in the field of robots, we have developed such as firefighting robots and rescue robots for fire treatment, but they can be built like emergency rescue robots. Robots that perform actions and decisions remain a major challenge.

The use of human-computer interaction and remote control to control the robot solves this problem well. In the future, this kind of robot can also be applied to many fields such as space exploration, telemedicine, military warfare, etc. Let robots become our agents, take our spirit and will to go high in the mountains and seas, and fly high.

In fact, talking about remote control of robots is not a new thing that appears today. As early as the early development of robots, many countries have conducted research and development experiments on such robots, and have been in industrial, aerospace and underwater facilities. It has been used for a long time in such scenarios.

For example, the German Aerospace Center has developed a mobile machine platform called "Justin", which has a light-weight arm and four fingers, which can realize remote autonomous control. By establishing a connection with the space station, the robot can realize remote control of space experiments on the ground. At the same time, the United Kingdom has also launched a large-scale anti-terrorism robot defender, which uses a broadband two-way coded RF output, a separate handheld controller with a control distance of up to 2 kilometers, and can remotely operate anti-terrorism remotely; In addition, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States Chanset also designed and developed a snake-shaped crawling robot with a head diameter smaller than a dime coin, which is very flexible and can be used to assist in the operation of fine surgery.

In China, with the improvement of national defense, medical treatment and living standards, the requirements for automation in all walks of life continue to increase. Domestic universities and research structures have already begun research on robot teleoperation, and have achieved certain achievements:

Among them, China ’s first small-scale nuclear detection remote control robot jointly developed by an anti-chemical technology brigade of the Nanjing Military Region and Southeast University and Yangzhou University can enter areas that are unreachable by personnel, unknown or highly dangerous, and perform nuclear radiation, chemical, biological, Sound, image reconnaissance, sample collection, radioactive source recovery and other on-site disposal tasks; the on-site robot developed by the Southeast University team can not only achieve "space extraction", but also feel the weight, texture and temperature of items in the air; and Harbin Institute of Technology Dozens of clinical operations have been completed with the "remote operation assisted bone-joining medical robot" developed by the company, with a success rate of 100%.

This shows that the idea of ​​remotely operating robots has a long history, and the research and development of remotely controlled robots has long been the norm. Since its development, the focus of R & D on remotely controlled robots has also changed from unilateral human-controlled robots to interactive development between humans and machines. In other words, people not only have to manipulate the robot to move and work, but also empathize with the robot.

The realization of this function may need to rely on virtual reality technology. At present, many researchers believe that the application of virtual reality technology to robot remote operation can master the status of the robot body in real time by creating a remote control virtual reality interface and establish a visual presence; at the same time, it can also pass the interaction force between the robot and the environment. The sensor can feedback to the local operator in real time, which makes the operator feel immersive.

However, the combination of virtual reality and remote control is still a technical difficulty so far, and it will take time to realize. If a breakthrough is achieved in this difficulty, then the robot is very likely to become a real "Avatar" in reality.