A Method For Automated Drone Viewpoints to Support Remote Robot Manipulation

Emmanuel Senft,Michael Hagenow,Pragathi Praveena,Robert Radwin,Michael Zinn,Michael Gleicher,Bilge Mutlu,Emmanuel Senft,Michael Hagenow,Pragathi Praveena,Robert Radwin,Michael Zinn,Michael Gleicher,Bilge Mutlu

Drones can provide a minimally-constrained adapting camera view to support robot telemanipulation. Furthermore, the drone view can be automated to reduce the burden on the operator during teleoperation. However, existing approaches do not focus on two important aspects of using a drone as an automated view provider. The first is how the drone should select from a range of quality viewpoints within...