A Delay Compensation Framework Based on Eye-Movement for Teleoperated Ground Vehicles

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Main Authors: Zhang, Qiang, Yang, Lingfang, Huang, Zhi, Song, Xiaolin
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Published: 2023
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author Zhang, Qiang
Yang, Lingfang
Huang, Zhi
Song, Xiaolin
author_facet Zhang, Qiang
Yang, Lingfang
Huang, Zhi
Song, Xiaolin
contents An eye-movement-based predicted trajectory guidance control (ePTGC) is proposed to mitigate the maneuverability degradation of a teleoperated ground vehicle caused by communication delays. Human sensitivity to delays is the main reason for the performance degradation of a ground vehicle teleoperation system. The proposed framework extracts human intention from eye-movement. Then, it combines it with contextual constraints to generate an intention-compliant guidance trajectory, which is then employed to control the vehicle directly. The advantage of this approach is that the teleoperator is removed from the direct control loop by using the generated trajectories to guide vehicle, thus reducing the adverse sensitivity to delay. The delay can be compensated as long as the prediction horizon exceeds the delay. A human-in-loop simulation platform is designed to evaluate the teleoperation performance of the proposed method at different delay levels. The results are analyzed by repeated measures ANOVA, which shows that the proposed method significantly improves maneuverability and cognitive burden at large delay levels (>200 ms). The overall performance is also much better than the PTGC which does not employ the eye-movement feature.
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spellingShingle A Delay Compensation Framework Based on Eye-Movement for Teleoperated Ground Vehicles
Zhang, Qiang
Yang, Lingfang
Huang, Zhi
Song, Xiaolin
Robotics
Systems and Control
An eye-movement-based predicted trajectory guidance control (ePTGC) is proposed to mitigate the maneuverability degradation of a teleoperated ground vehicle caused by communication delays. Human sensitivity to delays is the main reason for the performance degradation of a ground vehicle teleoperation system. The proposed framework extracts human intention from eye-movement. Then, it combines it with contextual constraints to generate an intention-compliant guidance trajectory, which is then employed to control the vehicle directly. The advantage of this approach is that the teleoperator is removed from the direct control loop by using the generated trajectories to guide vehicle, thus reducing the adverse sensitivity to delay. The delay can be compensated as long as the prediction horizon exceeds the delay. A human-in-loop simulation platform is designed to evaluate the teleoperation performance of the proposed method at different delay levels. The results are analyzed by repeated measures ANOVA, which shows that the proposed method significantly improves maneuverability and cognitive burden at large delay levels (>200 ms). The overall performance is also much better than the PTGC which does not employ the eye-movement feature.
title A Delay Compensation Framework Based on Eye-Movement for Teleoperated Ground Vehicles
topic Robotics
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07464