Remote control of an assistive robot: three guidelines for designing shared control modes
Résumé
In the robotics community, numerous works deal with robots autonomy. In the field of assistive robotics dedicated to dependant persons at home or in institution, the level of autonomy is not sufficient to make the service reliable. One solution is to use a remote robot and to propose to the distant operator different kinds of control assistance, allowing the robot more and more autonomy. We propose here three principles to elaborate control modes shared between the operator and the robot: develop intuitive commands, give transparent information back to the user, define simple and contextual command interface. We illustrate these three principles with an implementation on the mobile robots of IBISC lab.