The proposed research is aimed at investigating the feasibility to provide an Augmented Reality (AR) based support platform for Human-Robots collaboration. The envisioned concept provides AR interface to help astronauts leverage Robots collaborators during procedure execution. There are multiple potential use cases to Human-Robots collaboration such as co-presence where human and robots are working side by side, collaborating on the execution of procedures and sharing the same spatial area, or remote control of the robots by a human within or outside of a spacecraft, or on a planetary surface. These human-robots collaboration examples can benefit from the use of AR in order to increase the overall situational awareness.
Potential NASA applications:
• Man – Robots space mission including SPHERE and Robonaut on board the ISS
• Planetary surface activities
• Deep Space Gateway mission
• Security, Disaster Relief & Support
• Complex EVA activities with Robots support
Potential Non-NASA applications:
• Complex and expensive maintenance tasks, which need to be performed safely by joint man-robots team
• Robots for homes, hospitals, and offices interacting with humans for their tasks