The essence of plastic surgery is to have innovative thinking, capacity to find new methods and to adopt newer technologies to its benefit. The development of medical robotic system to assist surgeons in various surgical specialties is a new advancement and is a growing field of telerobotic research. The Robotic Assisted Microsurgery (RAMS) represents one of the latest innovations of teleroboti...

Three-dimensional robotic simulations represent a way to protect the physical integrity of both the robot and its operator. Among their applications, teleoperation enable to command robot manipulations of hazardous 3D objects (such as radioactive or explosive ones) on a remote site. To some telerobotic applications there is the need for two or more operators due to task complexity or due to the...

Expensive specialized systems have hampered development of telerobotic systems for manufacturing systems. In this paper we demonstrate a telerobotic system which can reduce the cost of such system by leveraging commercial virtual reality(VR) technology and integrating it with existing robotics control software. The system runs on a commercial gaming engine using off the shelf VR hardware. This ...

Advanced Telerobotic Applications for Telemanipulation T his article focuses on the use of stereoscopic video interfaces for telerobotics. Topics concerning human visual perception, binocular image capturing, and stereoscopic devices are described. There is a wide variety of video interfaces for telerobotic systems [1]. Choosing the best video interface depends on the telerobotic application re...

Telerobotics research for Super Long Distance has been underway between MITI of Japan and NASA JPL of United States. Foe this telerobotics, the limited amount of data transfer, communication delay and the uncertainty of robot environment will be the major issues. To overcome these problems, a telerobotic system, with a knowledge base for object handling, an environment model and a hybrid compli...

This work presents a software and hardware framework for a telerobotic surgery safety and motor skill training simulator. The aims are at providing trainees a comprehensive simulator for acquiring essential skills to perform telerobotic surgery. Existing commercial robotic surgery simulators lack features for safety training and optimal motion planning, which are critical factors in ensuring pa...

Despite major advances in autonomous vehicle technologies, humancontrolled ROVs (remotely-operated vehicles) continue to fill an important role in underwater work. To perform effectively, however, the human operator requires meaningful cues for spatial orientation, good workspace visibility, and tight feedback about manipulator behavior. These needs can be hard to support in actual undersea ope...

The Internet connects millions of computers worldwide, and provides a new potential working environment for remote-controlled telerobotic systems. The main limitation of using the Internet in this application is random delays between communicating nodes, which can cause disturbances in human–machine interaction and affect telepresence experiences. This is particularly important in systems integ...

Ultrasonic rotary motors have the potential to meet this NASA need and they are developed as actuators for miniature telerobotic applications. These motors are being adapted for operation at the harsh space environments that include cryogenic temperatures and vacuum and analytical tools for the design of efficient motors are being developed. A hybrid analytical model was developed to address a ...

In the last forty years, land mines have become one of the most serious threats to civilian populations in several parts of the world. To address this problem, humanitarian de-mining activities are being undertaken in many of the affected Countries. The de-mining process has, however, been fought with a number of difficulties since land mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) are very difficult to ...