Multiple camera image interface for operating mobile robot

This paper describes a human-robot interface for operating a mobile robot using multiple images provided by cameras distributed throughout locations. In a case that a human operates the robot recognizing wide working area with multi-displayed images, the image display method for human will be an important subject. To assist human recognition of the relationship between multi-displayed images from cam- eras located throughout wider unknown work areas, we designed the interface to have the following main features: 1) indication of overlap areas from cam- eras to support human recognition of working areas, 2) indication of rough routes for robot navigation to assist robot operation from captured images. Our experiments revealed the effectiveness of our interface and that of the whole robot system.