Augmented-Reality-Based Methods of Controlling a Mobile Robot in a Deployment Environment, and Related Software, Systems, and Mobile Robots

Abstract

Methods of controlling movements of a mobile robot having a mobility system for moving the mobile robot in a deployment environment, the mobility system being responsive to a plurality of movement commands. In an example of such methods, the method includes: providing, by a headset of an augmented-reality system to a user wearing the headset, a view of features within the deployment environment; capturing, by a first camera of the augmented-reality system, a first gesture that the user makes with the hand; translating the first gesture into at least one of the movement commands; and transmitting the at least one of the movement commands to the mobile robot. Related systems, software, and apparatuses are also disclosed.

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