Vehicle Teleoperation: Performance Assessment of SRPT Approach Under State Estimation Errors

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Autori principali: Prakash, Jai, Vignati, Michele, Sabbioni, Edoardo
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author Prakash, Jai
Vignati, Michele
Sabbioni, Edoardo
author_facet Prakash, Jai
Vignati, Michele
Sabbioni, Edoardo
contents Vehicle teleoperation has numerous potential applications, including serving as a backup solution for autonomous vehicles, facilitating remote delivery services, and enabling hazardous remote operations. However, complex urban scenarios, limited situational awareness, and network delay increase the cognitive workload of human operators and degrade teleoperation performance. To address this, the successive reference pose tracking (SRPT) approach was introduced in earlier work, which transmits successive reference poses to the remote vehicle instead of steering commands. The operator generates reference poses online with the help of a joystick steering and an augmented display, potentially mitigating the detrimental effects of delays. However, it is not clear which minimal set of sensors is essential for the SRPT vehicle teleoperation control loop. This paper tests the robustness of the SRPT approach in the presence of state estimation inaccuracies, environmental disturbances, and measurement noises. The simulation environment, implemented in Simulink, features a 14-dof vehicle model and incorporates difficult maneuvers such as tight corners, double-lane changes, and slalom. Environmental disturbances include low adhesion track regions and strong cross-wind gusts. The results demonstrate that the SRPT approach, using either estimated or actual states, performs similarly under various worst-case scenarios, even without a position sensor requirement. Additionally, the designed state estimator ensures sufficient performance with just an inertial measurement unit, wheel speed encoder, and steer encoder, constituting a minimal set of essential sensors for the SRPT vehicle teleoperation control loop.
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Prakash, Jai
Vignati, Michele
Sabbioni, Edoardo
Robotics
Vehicle teleoperation has numerous potential applications, including serving as a backup solution for autonomous vehicles, facilitating remote delivery services, and enabling hazardous remote operations. However, complex urban scenarios, limited situational awareness, and network delay increase the cognitive workload of human operators and degrade teleoperation performance. To address this, the successive reference pose tracking (SRPT) approach was introduced in earlier work, which transmits successive reference poses to the remote vehicle instead of steering commands. The operator generates reference poses online with the help of a joystick steering and an augmented display, potentially mitigating the detrimental effects of delays. However, it is not clear which minimal set of sensors is essential for the SRPT vehicle teleoperation control loop. This paper tests the robustness of the SRPT approach in the presence of state estimation inaccuracies, environmental disturbances, and measurement noises. The simulation environment, implemented in Simulink, features a 14-dof vehicle model and incorporates difficult maneuvers such as tight corners, double-lane changes, and slalom. Environmental disturbances include low adhesion track regions and strong cross-wind gusts. The results demonstrate that the SRPT approach, using either estimated or actual states, performs similarly under various worst-case scenarios, even without a position sensor requirement. Additionally, the designed state estimator ensures sufficient performance with just an inertial measurement unit, wheel speed encoder, and steer encoder, constituting a minimal set of essential sensors for the SRPT vehicle teleoperation control loop.
title Vehicle Teleoperation: Performance Assessment of SRPT Approach Under State Estimation Errors
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11674