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: Received: 1 October 2020 / Approved: 8 October 2020 / Online: 8 October 2020 (11:06:18 CEST)
How to cite:
Belmonte, L.M.; García, A.S.; Morales, R.; de la Vara, J.L.; Fernández-Caballero, A. Feeling of Safety and Comfort Towards a Socially Assistive Unmanned Aerial Vehicle That Monitors People in a Virtual Home. Preprints.org2020, 2020100174. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202010.0174.v1
Belmonte, L.M.; García, A.S.; Morales, R.; de la Vara, J.L.; Fernández-Caballero, A. Feeling of Safety and Comfort Towards a Socially Assistive Unmanned Aerial Vehicle That Monitors People in a Virtual Home. Preprints.org 2020, 2020100174. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202010.0174.v1
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Belmonte, L.M.; García, A.S.; Morales, R.; de la Vara, J.L.; Fernández-Caballero, A. Feeling of Safety and Comfort Towards a Socially Assistive Unmanned Aerial Vehicle That Monitors People in a Virtual Home. Preprints.org2020, 2020100174. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202010.0174.v1
Belmonte, L.M.; García, A.S.; Morales, R.; de la Vara, J.L.; Fernández-Caballero, A. Feeling of Safety and Comfort Towards a Socially Assistive Unmanned Aerial Vehicle That Monitors People in a Virtual Home. Preprints.org 2020, 2020100174. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202010.0174.v1
Abstract
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) represent a new model of social robots for home care of dependent persons. In this regard, this article introduces a study on people’s feeling of safety and comfort while watching the monitoring trajectory of a quadrotor dedicated to determining their condition. Three main parameters are evaluated: the relative monitoring altitude, the monitoring velocity and the shape of the monitoring path around the person (ellipsoidal or circular). For this purpose, a new trajectory generator based on a state machine, which is successfully implemented and simulated in MATLAB/Simulink®, is described. The study is carried out with 37 participants using a virtual reality (VR) platform based on two modules, UAV Simulator and VR Visualiser, both communicating through the MQTT protocol. The participants’ preferences have been a high relative monitoring altitude, a high monitoring velocity and a circular path. These choices are a starting point for the design of trustworthy socially assistive UAVs flying in real homes.
Keywords
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV); Social Robot; Feeling of Safety and Comfort; Trajectory Planning; Virtual Reality; MATLAB/Simulink®; MQTT
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Robotics
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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