Fluidic Body: Gesture-controlled fluid-like swarm robots
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Michikuni Eguchi and other authors published the Fluidic Body system, which lets an operator use hand movements as a way to control swarm robots: the space between the hand and the robots is defined as a kind of virtual fluid. When the hand is open, the swarm becomes soft and can deform to go around obstacles; when the hand is clenched into a fist, the swarm becomes hard and aggregates into a whole to push objects. The authors say that in a VR user study, 17 participants used the system to complete combined obstacle-avoidance and transport tasks, and did so faster and more reliably than with the comparison method; in a real-robot demonstration with 88 participants, this operating experience also carried over to physical robots. System performance and operability were additionally evaluated through two simulation experiments and one physical-robot demonstration.
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The authors propose the Fluidic Body system, which lets an operator change the properties of a virtual fluid between the hand and a swarm robot collective through hand movements, thereby adjusting swarm behavior: opening the hand makes the swarm soft and deformable so it can flow around obstacles, while clenching the fist makes the swarm hard and cohesive so it can aggregate into a single body to push objects.
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