ABSTRACT
Telepresence is the ideal of sensing sufficient information about the tele operator and task environment and communicating this to the human operator in a sufficiently natural way, so that the operator feels physically present at the remote site. The term teleoperation refers to direct and continuous human control of the tele operator. This chapter discusses a history of applications of teleoperation-extension of human sensing and manipulating capability by coupling to artificial sensors and actuators-is given in order to situate the Delft Virtual Window system. It presents an overview of the Delft Virtual Window system, referring to definitions of concepts from robotics and perception psychology that are crucial in order to explain the working principle of the system, as well as the system's performance measurements. The chapter also discusses telepresence applications using the system. It argues that implementation in its turn leads to new challenges for fundamental research on perception.
