Multimedia communication pendant for sensor-based robotic task teaching by sharing information: concepts and evaluations

We describe a new robot teaching interface, the multimedia communication pendant (MC Pendant) to make robots more intelligent through human support. Wide, nonverbal and bi-directional communication channels and multimedia technology allow information to be shared between operators and robots. That is information to be reflected human knowledge or perception and robot information to be perceived by humans. Experimental results show that the MC pendant improves operational accuracy and greatly reduces the time needed for teaching, compared with a conventional pendant.