Towards Real-Time Generation of Delay-Compensated Video Feeds for Outdoor Mobile Robot Teleoperation

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Main Authors: Chakraborty, Neeloy, Fang, Yixiao, Schreiber, Andre, Ji, Tianchen, Huang, Zhe, Mihigo, Aganze, Wall, Cassidy, Almana, Abdulrahman, Driggs-Campbell, Katherine
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author Chakraborty, Neeloy
Fang, Yixiao
Schreiber, Andre
Ji, Tianchen
Huang, Zhe
Mihigo, Aganze
Wall, Cassidy
Almana, Abdulrahman
Driggs-Campbell, Katherine
author_facet Chakraborty, Neeloy
Fang, Yixiao
Schreiber, Andre
Ji, Tianchen
Huang, Zhe
Mihigo, Aganze
Wall, Cassidy
Almana, Abdulrahman
Driggs-Campbell, Katherine
contents Teleoperation is an important technology to enable supervisors to control agricultural robots remotely. However, environmental factors in dense crop rows and limitations in network infrastructure hinder the reliability of data streamed to teleoperators. These issues result in delayed and variable frame rate video feeds that often deviate significantly from the robot's actual viewpoint. We propose a modular learning-based vision pipeline to generate delay-compensated images in real-time for supervisors. Our extensive offline evaluations demonstrate that our method generates more accurate images compared to state-of-the-art approaches in our setting. Additionally, ours is one of the few works to evaluate a delay-compensation method in outdoor field environments with complex terrain on data from a real robot in real-time. Resulting videos and code are provided at https://sites.google.com/illinois.edu/comp-teleop.
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spellingShingle Towards Real-Time Generation of Delay-Compensated Video Feeds for Outdoor Mobile Robot Teleoperation
Chakraborty, Neeloy
Fang, Yixiao
Schreiber, Andre
Ji, Tianchen
Huang, Zhe
Mihigo, Aganze
Wall, Cassidy
Almana, Abdulrahman
Driggs-Campbell, Katherine
Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Teleoperation is an important technology to enable supervisors to control agricultural robots remotely. However, environmental factors in dense crop rows and limitations in network infrastructure hinder the reliability of data streamed to teleoperators. These issues result in delayed and variable frame rate video feeds that often deviate significantly from the robot's actual viewpoint. We propose a modular learning-based vision pipeline to generate delay-compensated images in real-time for supervisors. Our extensive offline evaluations demonstrate that our method generates more accurate images compared to state-of-the-art approaches in our setting. Additionally, ours is one of the few works to evaluate a delay-compensation method in outdoor field environments with complex terrain on data from a real robot in real-time. Resulting videos and code are provided at https://sites.google.com/illinois.edu/comp-teleop.
title Towards Real-Time Generation of Delay-Compensated Video Feeds for Outdoor Mobile Robot Teleoperation
topic Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09921