Collaborative teleoperation evaluation for drones.

Piloting an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), popularly known as drones, is a challenging task that contrasts the pilot's ability and the expertise required for the task. In industrial scenarios, inspectors may not know how to pilot the drone. However, these analysts could potentially assist someone in the process and collaborate on the task. Thus, the purpose of this work is to evaluate a framework that divides the teleoperation of drones into two participants: one participant playing the role of the pilot and another one playing the role of the inspector, over all enabling the teleoperation of drones and performing tasks functioning/working in a cooperative manner. User studies were performed to evaluate the individual opinions of the participants regarding the implemented framework. The results of this work show the framework to be efficient in facilitating the resolution of tasks, which, none the less, could be improved by adding better equipment.