This research work focuses on development of a framework for designing a telerobotic system controller. We define telefunctioning as a robotic manipulation method in which the dynamic behaviors of the slave robot and the master robot are functions of each other; these functions are the designer's choice and depend on the application. In a subclass of telefunctioning called telepresence, all of ...

Teleoperation systems consist of two subsystems namely, the master and the slave. Master is used by the human operator to send commands to the slave to achieve a task. In bilateral teleoperation, the interaction forces acquired from the slave sub-system is sent to the master to increase the level of tele-presence. In this kind of a setting, data has to be transferred through a communication lin...

This research deals with master-slave control of a teleoperated hydraulic construction robot. In this system, the master consists of two joysticks, and the slave is the hydraulic construction robot (including the fork glove, boom, arm, and swing, driven by hydraulic actuators). In a previous research, the authors proposed a force feedback method based on position-velocity control, in which the ...

This talk addresses the problem of establishing a bilateral teleoperation system for remotely controlling the motion of groups of (possibly heterogeneous) mobile robots in a decentralized way. Instead of being focused on a particular class of robot, an approach general enough to allow for a straightforward application to any kind of mobile robot, such as aerial, ground, space, naval, or underwa...

This paper presents a slave robot carrying an ultrasound probe for remote echographic examination. This robot is integrated in a master-slave system called robotic tele-echography (TER). The system allows an expert operator to perform a remote diagnosis from echographic data he acquires on a patient located in a distant place. The originality of this robot lies in its architecture: the cable-dr...

Minimally invasive surgery systems typically involve thin and cabledriven surgical instruments. This introduces link and joint flexibility in the slave robot of a master-slave teleoperation system, reducing the effective stiffness of the slave and the transparency of teleoperation. In this paper, we analyze transparency under slave link and joint flexibility (tool flexibility). We also evaluate...

An adaptive controller is developed for adjusting robot arm parameters while manipulating payload_of-unknown moss and inertia. The controller is tested experimentally in a masterlslave configuration where the adaptive slave arm is commanded via human operator inputs from a master. Kinematically similar six-joint master and slave arms are used with the last three joints locked for simplification...

This paper presents a new Haptic Rate-Position controller, which allows manipulating a slave robot in a large workspace using a small haptic device. This control algorithm is very effective when the master device is much smaller than the slave device. Haptic information is displayed to the user so as to be informed when a change in the operation mode occurs. This controller allows performing ta...

In this paper, an adaptive motion/force control based approach is proposed to control bilateral teleoperation systems under both position and rate control with arbitrary motion/force scaling. The master and the slave are treated separately, and are subject to independent adaptive motion/force control. A model of the human operator is incorporated into the dynamics of the master robot, while a m...