A method for supporting robot's actions using virtual reality in a smart space

The purpose of this study is to construct a system that is able to supporting interactively the users such as human and robots in a smart space where sensors and actuators are dispersively installed. The virtual reality utilized as a platform in the system is built by representing to put the information together from sensors in the smart space where the users share the information and collaborate each other. The system has provided to support the task assignment and route planning for robots. The task assignment is to assign a suitable robot for executing the task by using the information acquired from the virtual reality. The route planning is a function to serve a safe path by pointing a sequent sub-goal in case of what happened to the sensors on a robot or the robot under complicated surroundings. The effectiveness of the system to support robots and experimental results implemented with two robots are presented in this paper.