Bionic robots are generally considered to have strong flexibility, adaptability, and stability. Their bionic forms are more likely to interact emotionally with people, which means obvious advantages as socially assistive robots. However, it has not been widely concerned and verified in the blind and low-vision community. In this paper, we explored the guiding performance and experience of bionic quadruped robots compared to wheeled robots. We invited the visually impaired participants to complete a) the indoor straight & turn task and obstacle avoidance task in a laboratory environment; b) the outdoor real and complex environment. With the transition from indoor to outdoor, we found that the workload of the bionic quadruped robots changed to insignificant. Moreover, obvious temporal demand indoors changed to significant mental demand outdoors. Also, there was no significant advantage of quadruped robots in usability, trust, or satisfaction, which was amplified outdoors. We concluded that walking noise and the gait of quadruped robots would limit the guiding effect to a certain extent, and the empathetic effect of its zoomorphic form for visually impaired people could not be fully reflected. This paper provides evidence for the empirical research of bionic quadruped robots in the field of guiding VI people, pointing out their shortcomings in guiding performance and experience, and has good instructive value for the design of bionic guided robots in the future.
翻译:生物机器人通常被认为具有很强的灵活性、适应性和稳定性。它们的生物形式更有可能与人进行情感互动,这意味着作为社会辅助机器人的明显优势。然而,它并没有在盲人和低视力群体中得到广泛的关注和核实。在本文中,我们探讨了与轮式机器人相比,生物机器人四重立的机器人的指导性表现和经验。我们请视力受损的参与者完成(a) 室内直转任务和实验室环境中的障碍避免任务;(b) 室外真实和复杂的环境。随着从室内向室外的转变,我们发现生物四重立机器人的工作量已经变得微不足道。此外,明显的时间需求在室内变化到室外的大量精神需求。此外,在使用性、信任或满意度方面没有四重立机器人的优势和经验。我们得出结论,行走动噪音和四重立机器人的庞大将指导效果限制在一定程度上,其形形形形形形形形形形形形形形形形形形形形形形形形形形的机器人的工作量变化到微不足道。这份论文在生物领域设计上展示了机器人的实验性模型,指导性型式模型的人的演化未来演进性能展示了他们未来的演进性模型。