Bilateral teleoperation of mobile robots

Robotica ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicente Mut ◽  
José Postigo ◽  
Emanuel Slawiñski ◽  
Benjamin Kuchen
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Robot ◽  
Mobile Robots ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Force Feedback ◽  
Control Structure ◽  
Interaction Force ◽  
Tactile Feedback ◽  
Linear Velocity ◽  
Bilateral Teleoperation

A control structure for the bilateral teleoperation of mobile robots, with tactile feedback and visual information of the interaction force is proposed in this paper. Also an impedance controller is implemented in the mobile robot structure that guarantees the linear velocity be within a desired fixed range without saturation in the actuators. To illustrate the performance of the proposed control structure, experiments on a Pioneer 2 mobile robot teleoperated with a commercial joystick with force feedback are shown.

PD-like controller with impedance for delayed bilateral teleoperation of mobile robots

Robotica ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (9) ◽  
pp. 2151-2161 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Slawiñski ◽  
S. García ◽  
L. Salinas ◽  
V. Mut
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Robot ◽  
Mobile Robots ◽  
Force Feedback ◽  
Robot Motion ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Control Parameters ◽  
Bilateral Teleoperation ◽  
Teleoperation System ◽  
Control Scheme ◽  
The Stability

SUMMARYThis paper proposes a control scheme applied to the delayed bilateral teleoperation of mobile robots with force feedback in face of asymmetric and time-varying delays. The scheme is managed by a velocity PD-like control plus impedance and a force feedback based on damping and synchronization error. A fictitious force, depending on the robot motion and its environment, is used to avoid possible collisions. In addition, the stability of the system is analyzed from which simple conditions for the control parameters are established in order to assure stability. Finally, the performance of the delayed teleoperation system is shown through experiments where a human operator drives a mobile robot.

Tactile Feedback Improves Performance in a Palpation Task: Results in a VR-Based Testbed

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Santos-Carreras ◽  
Kaspar Leuenberger ◽  
Evren Samur ◽  
Roger Gassert ◽  
Hannes Bleuler
Keyword(s):  
Visual Cues ◽  
Force Feedback ◽  
Haptic Feedback ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Interaction Force ◽  
Tactile Feedback ◽  
Tactile Display ◽  
Task Completion ◽  
Multimodal Feedback ◽  
Feedback Information

Robotic surgery provides many benefits such as reduced invasiveness and increased dexterity. This comes at the cost of no direct contact between surgeon and patient. This physical separation prevents surgeons from performing direct haptic exploration of tissues and organs, imposing exclusive reliance on visual cues. Current technology is not yet able to both measure and reproduce a realistic and complete sense of touch (interaction force, temperature, roughness, etc.). In this paper, we put forward a concept based on multimodal feedback consisting of the integration of different kinds of visual and tactile cues with force feedback that can potentially improve both the surgeon's performance and the patient's safety. We present a cost-effective tactile display simulating a pulsating artery that has been integrated into a haptic workstation to combine both tactile and force-feedback information. Furthermore, we investigate the effect of different feedback types, including tactile and/or visual cues, on the performance of subjects carrying out two typical palpation tasks: (1) exploring a tissue to find a hidden artery and (2) identifying the orientation of a hidden artery. The results show that adding tactile feedback significantly reduces task completion time. Moreover, for high difficulty levels, subjects perform better with the feedback condition combining tactile and visual cues. As a matter of fact, the majority of the subjects in the study preferred this combined feedback because redundant feedback reassures subjects in their actions. Based on this work, we can infer that multimodal haptic feedback improves subjects' performance and confidence during exploratory procedures.

Force and Position–Velocity Coordination for Delayed Bilateral Teleoperation of a Mobile Robot

Robotica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 1768-1784 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Slawiñski ◽  
V. Moya ◽  
D. Santiago ◽  
V. Mut
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Robot ◽  
Force Feedback ◽  
General Structure ◽  
Feedback System ◽  
Human Operator ◽  
Bilateral Teleoperation ◽  
Control Scheme ◽  
Communication Time ◽  
Remote Environment ◽  
Novel Model

SummaryThis document proposes a control scheme for delayed bilateral teleoperation of a mobile robot, which it is sought to achieve a coordination of the master device position with the slave mobile robot velocity, and at the same time synchronize the force exerted by the operator with force applied by the environment over the mobile robot. This approach allows the operator to improve the sensitive perception of the remote environment in which the robot navigates while he generates commands to control the mobile robot motion. In this paper, variable and asymmetrical communication time delays are taken into account, as well as a non-passive model of the human operator, for which a novel model is proposed that has a more general structure than the typical ones used to date in the teleoperation field. Furthermore, based on the theoretical analysis presented, the state of convergence in the stationary response is obtained. In addition, an experimental performance evaluation is carried out, where the position–velocity error, force error and the time to complete the task are evaluated. In the tests, a human operator commands a remote mobile robot to push objects of different weight while he perceives the weight of each object through the force feedback system. As an outcome, the theoretical and practical results obtained allow concluding that a satisfactory trade-off between stability and transparency is reached.

scholarly journals An algorithm for formation control of mobile robots

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Cosic ◽  
Marko Susic ◽  
Stevica Graovac ◽  
Dusko Katic
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Robot ◽  
Mobile Robots ◽  
Trajectory Tracking ◽  
Formation Control ◽  
Control Structure ◽  
Kinematic Model ◽  
The Real ◽  
Avoidance Control ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
High Level

Solution of the formation guidance in structured static environments is presented in this paper. It is assumed that high level planner is available, which generates collision free trajectory for the leader robot. Leader robot is forced to track generated trajectory, while followers? trajectories are generated based on the trajectory realized by the real leader. Real environments contain large number of static obstacles, which can be arbitrarily positioned. Hence, formation switching becomes necessary in cases when followers can collide with obstacles. In order to ensure trajectory tracking, as well as object avoidance, control structure with several controllers of different roles (trajectory tracking, obstacle avoiding, vehicle avoiding and combined controller) has been adopted. Kinematic model of differentially driven two-wheeled mobile robot is assumed. Simulation results show the efficiency of the proposed approach.

scholarly journals Delayed Bilateral Teleoperation of Wheeled Robots including a Command Metric

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franco Penizzotto ◽  
Sebastian García ◽  
Emanuel Slawiñski ◽  
Vicente Mut
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Robot ◽  
System Architecture ◽  
Communication Channel ◽  
Force Feedback ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Bilateral Teleoperation ◽  
Wheeled Robots ◽  
Teleoperation System ◽  
Control Scheme ◽  
The Stability

This paper proposes a control scheme applied to the delayed bilateral teleoperation of wheeled robots with force feedback, considering the performance of the operator’s command execution. In addition, the stability of the system is analyzed taking into account the dynamic model of the master as well as the remote mobile robot under asymmetric and time-varying delays of the communication channel. Besides, the performance of the teleoperation system, where a human operator drives a 3D simulator of a wheeled dynamic robot, is evaluated. In addition, we present an experiment where a robot Pioneer is teleoperated, based on the system architecture proposed.

Teleoperation of mobile robots with time-varying delay

Robotica ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 673-681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuel Slawiñski ◽  
Vicente Mut ◽  
José F. Postigo
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Robots ◽  
Control Structure ◽  
Bilateral Teleoperation ◽  
Delay Compensation ◽  
Time Varying Delay ◽  
Teleoperation System ◽  
Remote Sites ◽  
Time Delay Compensation ◽  
Varying Delay ◽  
Stable Control

This paper proposes a stable control structure for the bilateral teleoperation of mobile robots. The proposed control structure includes a time-delay compensation placed on both the local and remote sites of the teleoperation system. To illustrate the performance and stability of the proposed control structure, experiences on a Pioneer 2DX mobile robot teleoperated through a commercial joystick with visual feedback, are shown.

VIRTUAL REALITY FOR SUPPORTING THE CONFIGURATION OF TRANSFORMABLE ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS

2002 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 107-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARKUS MERSINGER ◽  
ENGELBERT WESTKÄMPER
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Force Feedback ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Interaction Force ◽  
Research Society ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Tactile Feedback ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
3D Interaction ◽  
The Real

Virtual Reality (VR) made its way out of research labs into industrial applications like product design, design for assembly, training issues, etc. Nevertheless, VR is still suffering from lacking technology to highlight its huge amount of functionality. That means the utilization of VR in a holistic way to combine the real and the virtual world to close the circle, in which the user can switch between both systems is still not common. There is more VR can contribute than an immersive 3D model of real objects and some interaction technology with different devices like 6 DOF mouse, PhantomTM, gloves with tactile feedback, etc. If you want to use VR like the usual technology, you have to integrate the features of 3D, interaction, force feedback, simulation and the real system. The research work to develop such an integrated system is done within a special research project (SFB 467) of the German Research Society (DFG) called "Transformable business structures for multiple-variant series production".

Ultrasonic sensor system for the uses in intelligent motion control system of a mobile robots group

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 109-117
Author(s):  
O.V. Darintsev ◽  
A.B. Migranov ◽  
B.S. Yudintsev
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Mobile Robot ◽  
Mobile Robots ◽  
Motion Control ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Ultrasonic Sensor ◽  
Sensor System ◽  
Motion Control System ◽  
Speed Sensor ◽  
Working Space

The article deals with the development of a high-speed sensor system for a mobile robot, used in conjunction with an intelligent method of planning trajectories in conditions of high dynamism of the working space.

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