Teleoperation systems that use Internet as communication channel must deal with varying time delays. In these situations, the system can become unstable due to the irregular variations of the time delay. In this paper, a control method of teleoperation systems that we presented considering constant time delays is applied to control a teleoperation system with varying time delays. The control ga...

This paper investigates a novel position sensor based force reflection framework for multi degrees-of-freedom bilateral teleoperation systems in unstructured environments. The conventional position sensor based force reflection method, known as position error feedback, may generate grossly inaccurate force reflection directions during collisions involving the slave manipulator links. The propos...

This paper addresses the problem that, the discretization of stabilizing the continuous bilateral teleoperation controllers for digital implementation may lead to instable teleoperation or poor performance. With this problem, a discrete approach for the novel proxy teleoperation control scheme under time-varying delays is considered in the paper. The principle results involve sufficient conditi...

Experiments were performed with the NASA Robonaut to determine if manifold learning could discern successful and unsuccessful teleoperation trials in an unsupervised manner. Repeated teleoperation of drill-mating and chisel-pickup tasks were performed by a skilled teleoperator. Spatio-temporal Isomap (STI) was used to embed data from the robot’s sensory-motor state-space (SMSS) to uncover under...

This paper presents a novel teleoperation controller for a nonlinear master–slave robotic system with constant time delay in communication channel. The proposed controller enables the teleoperation system to compensate human and environmental disturbances, while achieving master and slave position coordination in both free motion and contact situation. The current work basically extends the pas...

We analyze the stability of previously proposed mobile robot teleoperation system [7]. Unlike to other approaches human-operator dynamics is included for the stability analysis. Mobile robot teleoperation systems have two major differences when they are compared with conventional bilateral teleoperators: first, rate mode control is used; second, absence of physical interaction of the robot with...

Operating a robot in the micro/nano-world presents challenges not found in the macro-world. Due to the small dimensions, the operator has no direct access to the objects and must assemble them by teleoperation. To allow a good manipulability, we propose a mixed teleoperation system which is composed of both direct and taskoriented teleoperation modes. The operator is provided with a set of visu...

For deactivation and decommissioning (D&D) of contaminated structures in the weapons complex, remotely operated robotic systems are expected to replace human workers from hazardous radiation and difficult work environments, while improving productivity and reducing costs. Nevertheless, the major drawback of currently available remote operation technology is that teleoperation is a slow and impr...