Abstract
The UK Advanced Robotics Research Centre's VERDEX Project (Virtual Environment Remote Driving EX periment) is an experimental test bed for investigating telepresence and virtual reality technologies in the design of human-system interfaces for telerobots. The achievements of the Project to date include the transformation of scanning laser rangefinder output to stereo virtual imagery (viewed using the VPL EyePhoneTM), the Teletact® Tactile Feedback Glove (for use with the VPL DataGlove™), a high-speed, head-slaved stereo TV system, and a T800/i860 SuperVision™ graphics/video parallel processing system.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 461-467 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Robotica |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 1992 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Advanced Robotics Research Limited (ARRL) was formed in 1988 to manage a new UK National Advanced Robotics Research Centre (ARRC), part of the Department of Trade and Industry's 1985 Advanced Robotics Initiative.1 Located on the campus of the University of Salford, Greater Manchester, the National Centre is a focal point of expertise in the United Kingdom for research and engineering in the field of advanced robotic systems and technology. Operation commenced in June 1988 with £5 million start-up funding from the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) spread over a period of 5 years, and backed by equivalent investment from a founding group of 10 share-holding UK industrial companies and the University of Salford. The Centre is constituted as a commercial enterprise, tasked with developing its structure and activities to achieve long term viability independent of Government funds.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Control and Systems Engineering
- General Mathematics
- Computer Science Applications