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author Hauser, Kris
Watson, Eleanor
Bae, Joonbum
Bankston, Josh
Behnke, Sven
Borgia, Bill
Catalano, Manuel G.
Dafarra, Stefano
van Erp, Jan B. F.
Ferris, Thomas
Fishel, Jeremy
Hoffman, Guy
Ivaldi, Serena
Kanehiro, Fumio
Kheddar, Abderrahmane
Lannuzel, Gaelle
Morie, Jacqueline Ford
Naughton, Patrick
NGuyen, Steve
Oh, Paul
Padir, Taskin
Pippine, Jim
Park, Jaeheung
Pucci, Daniele
Vaz, Jean
Whitney, Peter
Wu, Peggy
Locke, David
author_facet Hauser, Kris
Watson, Eleanor
Bae, Joonbum
Bankston, Josh
Behnke, Sven
Borgia, Bill
Catalano, Manuel G.
Dafarra, Stefano
van Erp, Jan B. F.
Ferris, Thomas
Fishel, Jeremy
Hoffman, Guy
Ivaldi, Serena
Kanehiro, Fumio
Kheddar, Abderrahmane
Lannuzel, Gaelle
Morie, Jacqueline Ford
Naughton, Patrick
NGuyen, Steve
Oh, Paul
Padir, Taskin
Pippine, Jim
Park, Jaeheung
Pucci, Daniele
Vaz, Jean
Whitney, Peter
Wu, Peggy
Locke, David
contents The ANA Avatar XPRIZE was a four-year competition to develop a robotic "avatar" system to allow a human operator to sense, communicate, and act in a remote environment as though physically present. The competition featured a unique requirement that judges would operate the avatars after less than one hour of training on the human-machine interfaces, and avatar systems were judged on both objective and subjective scoring metrics. This paper presents a unified summary and analysis of the competition from technical, judging, and organizational perspectives. We study the use of telerobotics technologies and innovations pursued by the competing teams in their avatar systems, and correlate the use of these technologies with judges' task performance and subjective survey ratings. It also summarizes perspectives from team leads, judges, and organizers about the competition's execution and impact to inform the future development of telerobotics and telepresence.
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spellingShingle Analysis and Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition
Hauser, Kris
Watson, Eleanor
Bae, Joonbum
Bankston, Josh
Behnke, Sven
Borgia, Bill
Catalano, Manuel G.
Dafarra, Stefano
van Erp, Jan B. F.
Ferris, Thomas
Fishel, Jeremy
Hoffman, Guy
Ivaldi, Serena
Kanehiro, Fumio
Kheddar, Abderrahmane
Lannuzel, Gaelle
Morie, Jacqueline Ford
Naughton, Patrick
NGuyen, Steve
Oh, Paul
Padir, Taskin
Pippine, Jim
Park, Jaeheung
Pucci, Daniele
Vaz, Jean
Whitney, Peter
Wu, Peggy
Locke, David
Robotics
Human-Computer Interaction
The ANA Avatar XPRIZE was a four-year competition to develop a robotic "avatar" system to allow a human operator to sense, communicate, and act in a remote environment as though physically present. The competition featured a unique requirement that judges would operate the avatars after less than one hour of training on the human-machine interfaces, and avatar systems were judged on both objective and subjective scoring metrics. This paper presents a unified summary and analysis of the competition from technical, judging, and organizational perspectives. We study the use of telerobotics technologies and innovations pursued by the competing teams in their avatar systems, and correlate the use of these technologies with judges' task performance and subjective survey ratings. It also summarizes perspectives from team leads, judges, and organizers about the competition's execution and impact to inform the future development of telerobotics and telepresence.
title Analysis and Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition
topic Robotics
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05290