4 papers
NimbRo wins ANA Avatar XPRIZE Immersive Telepresence Competition: Human-Centric Evaluation and Lessons Learned
Christian Lenz, Max Schwarz, Andre Rochow +4
Robotic avatar systems can enable immersive telepresence with locomotion, manipulation, and communication capabilities. We present such an avatar system, based on the key component…
Audio-based Roughness Sensing and Tactile Feedback for Haptic Perception in Telepresence
Bastian Pätzold, Andre Rochow, Michael Schreiber +4
Haptic perception is highly important for immersive teleoperation of robots, especially for accomplishing manipulation tasks. We propose a low-cost haptic sensing and rendering sys…
Robust Immersive Telepresence and Mobile Telemanipulation: NimbRo wins ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals
Max Schwarz, Christian Lenz, Raphael Memmesheimer +4
Robotic avatar systems promise to bridge distances and reduce the need for travel. We present the updated NimbRo avatar system, winner of the $5M grand prize at the international A…
Online Marker-free Extrinsic Camera Calibration using Person Keypoint Detections
Bastian Pätzold, Simon Bultmann, Sven Behnke
Calibration of multi-camera systems, i.e. determining the relative poses between the cameras, is a prerequisite for many tasks in computer vision and robotics. Camera calibration i…