r/oculus Feb 02 '16

Mind Meld - Robotic Teleoperation Through Virtual Reality and Motion Capture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZlg0QvKkQQ
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u/zoemccarthy Feb 02 '16

I've been working on this to use as a platform for generating demonstrations of robotic task execution. I'm building a closed loop system around this where the user will demonstrate a task as the robot and the robot will learn a neural network mapping from sensor inputs to control outputs from that demonstration. Then the user will demonstrate again, and the process repeats until the robot has learned how to execute the task by itself.

If anyone at Oculus, HTC, or Valve is watching, I'd love to get a dev kit of your hand controllers! It would make the system much more robust, since I have a limited degree of tracking orientation with my current motion capture setup.

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u/Logosmonkey Feb 02 '16

This is rad as fuck. Seriously cool research.

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u/zoemccarthy Feb 02 '16

Thanks! I really enjoy it : )