TelePreview: A User-Friendly Teleoperation System with Virtual Arm Assistance for Enhanced Effectiveness

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Main Authors: Guo, Jingxiang, Luo, Jiayu, Wei, Zhenyu, Hou, Yiwen, Xu, Zhixuan, Lin, Xiaoyi, Gao, Chongkai, Shao, Lin
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author Guo, Jingxiang
Luo, Jiayu
Wei, Zhenyu
Hou, Yiwen
Xu, Zhixuan
Lin, Xiaoyi
Gao, Chongkai
Shao, Lin
author_facet Guo, Jingxiang
Luo, Jiayu
Wei, Zhenyu
Hou, Yiwen
Xu, Zhixuan
Lin, Xiaoyi
Gao, Chongkai
Shao, Lin
contents Teleoperation provides an effective way to collect robot data, which is crucial for learning from demonstrations. In this field, teleoperation faces several key challenges: user-friendliness for new users, safety assurance, and transferability across different platforms. While collecting real robot dexterous manipulation data by teleoperation to train robots has shown impressive results on diverse tasks, due to the morphological differences between human and robot hands, it is not only hard for new users to understand the action mapping but also raises potential safety concerns during operation. To address these limitations, we introduce TelePreview. This teleoperation system offers real-time visual feedback on robot actions based on human user inputs, with a total hardware cost of less than $1,000. TelePreview allows the user to see a virtual robot that represents the outcome of the user's next movement. By enabling flexible switching between command visualization and actual execution, this system helps new users learn how to demonstrate quickly and safely. We demonstrate that it outperforms other teleoperation systems across five tasks, emphasize its ease of use, and highlight its straightforward deployment across diverse robotic platforms. We release our code and a deployment document on our website https://nus-lins-lab.github.io/telepreview-web/.
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spellingShingle TelePreview: A User-Friendly Teleoperation System with Virtual Arm Assistance for Enhanced Effectiveness
Guo, Jingxiang
Luo, Jiayu
Wei, Zhenyu
Hou, Yiwen
Xu, Zhixuan
Lin, Xiaoyi
Gao, Chongkai
Shao, Lin
Robotics
Human-Computer Interaction
Teleoperation provides an effective way to collect robot data, which is crucial for learning from demonstrations. In this field, teleoperation faces several key challenges: user-friendliness for new users, safety assurance, and transferability across different platforms. While collecting real robot dexterous manipulation data by teleoperation to train robots has shown impressive results on diverse tasks, due to the morphological differences between human and robot hands, it is not only hard for new users to understand the action mapping but also raises potential safety concerns during operation. To address these limitations, we introduce TelePreview. This teleoperation system offers real-time visual feedback on robot actions based on human user inputs, with a total hardware cost of less than $1,000. TelePreview allows the user to see a virtual robot that represents the outcome of the user's next movement. By enabling flexible switching between command visualization and actual execution, this system helps new users learn how to demonstrate quickly and safely. We demonstrate that it outperforms other teleoperation systems across five tasks, emphasize its ease of use, and highlight its straightforward deployment across diverse robotic platforms. We release our code and a deployment document on our website https://nus-lins-lab.github.io/telepreview-web/.
title TelePreview: A User-Friendly Teleoperation System with Virtual Arm Assistance for Enhanced Effectiveness
topic Robotics
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13548