ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates that providing augmented reality guidance can significantly improve the accuracy of speed regulation, position error and orientation error by 19.3%, 15.5%, and 39.2% respectively. Hand-held robotic systems offer a number of advantages over traditional stationery and mobile robots. In order to have a hand-held system work effectively the robot and the user must have a shared understanding of the task at hand. Head-mounted augmented reality is a promising technology for communicating information to a user whilst allowing them to work with as little hindrance as possible. The users were asked to keep the robot orthogonal to the direction of movement at all times, and in both versions of the visualization, the direction required is shown. Therefore, we can have two metrics to measure the performance of the users’ alignment accuracy, the relative orientation of the robot in regard to its movement direction, and the alignment with the requested orientation.
