WIM-Drone: Combining a World-In-Miniature and Micro-Gestures for Teleoperation in Augmented Reality

Teleoperation in industrial contexts require operators to understand and visualize in real-time the remote workspace. It is nonetheless challenging to provide independent and mobile viewpoints to remote operators. This paper explores a new approach to tackle this challenge: Augmented Reality (AR) to control a drone used as aerial camera. More precisely, WIM-Drone combines a World-In-Miniature (WIM) in AR with (micro)gestures to control a drone. We present the conception and experimental evaluation of four interaction techniques based on this approach. Results from studies 1 and 2 suggest that WIM-Drone can be a promising approach for teleoperation scenario. Besides, Study 2 suggest that participants avoided collisions between the drone and humans or moving objects, but often ignored collisions with static objects.