Employ human-in-the-loop (HITL) testing to investigate the dependence of teleoperation task performance degradation on experimentally imposed display-to-control misalignment.
The guidelines and performance metrics developed from this research will provide a rational basis for the design and selection of teleoperation tasks to be carried out in the presence of communication delays. These products will in turn assist subsequent task, technology design, and validation experiment decisions regarding acceptable or desirable delay compensation techniques and define at what point to engage more autonomous operational modes. Additional work conducted as part of an extension is intended to contribute new countermeasures and methods for implementing mitigation techniques both for time delay and misaligned camera-to-control conditions. In addition to peer-reviewed publication, we expect our results to augment existing NASA standards/handbooks. Integration/Unique Aspects: NASA Human Exploration Telerobotics (HET) Project