* IROS 2019 Tutorial on "SIGVerse: Cloud-based VR platform for Human-Robot Interaction" [#ja99271d]


Date and Time : 8th November (Friday), from 14:00 to 18:00
Location : Room LG-R17


This tutorial is aimed to provide an opportunity to learn how to use the SIGVerse, which is a virtual reality (VR) based platform for human-robot interaction (HRI) research. Since collecting and storing a massive amount of data concerning multimodal interaction experiences is an important task concerning research on HRI, a cloud-based VR platform, named “SIGVerse,” which reduces costs of developing real robots and interaction experiments in the real world, is proposed. The system combines Unity and ROS frameworks to enable general users to login to an avatar in a robot simulator for the HRI experiments. The proposed architecture provides functionalities for constructing scalable 3D environments, embodied and social interaction via the Internet, compatible robot software, high-fidelity sensor feedback, and recording/playback of interaction. The following figure shows the concept of the SIGVerse platform.


** Organizer [#a0a1a1ae]
- Tetsunari Inamura (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
- Yoshiaki Mizuchi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
- Hiroyuki Okada (Tamagawa University, Japan)

** Request for the attendee [#l064b738]
If you bring your laptop PC, this workshop would be more fruitful for you with installing and testing the software. Since the power strips are limited in the convention venue, please charge your laptop before the tutorial and the organizers recommend carrying your own power strip.

** Program of the tutorial [#k177ab06]
- 14:00 Welcome remark (by Prof. Minoru Asada)
- 14:05 Introduction of SIGVerse (by Tetsunari Inamura)
- 14:30-15:00 Instllation of the SIGVerse base system
- 15:00-15:30 Testing several basic examples
- 15:30-16:00 Coffee break
- 16:00-17:00 Testing several advanced applications for robot competition (RoboCup@Home Simulation)
- 17:00-17:45 Free execise using VR headsets
- 17:45 Closing remark
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