Towards Virtual Presence Based on Multimodal Man-Machine Communication: A Remote Operation Support System for Industrial Robots

Worldwide, the focus on industrial development is on achieving smaller and smaller batch sizes in production. This has led to the need for providing cost efficient support to robot users. In this study, a new method for the remote operation of industrial robot systems is introduced. The method is based upon multi-modal man-machine communication and sensor bridging to transfer huge amounts of information from the industrial robot cell to the brain of the remote operator.