Obstacle recognition using a haptic device

A haptic device is proposed which gives the user feedback information on their location and orientation of the obstacle through the mobile robot that detects the obstacle in an environment where the user cannot see.Mobile robot recognizes the exact position of the obstacle through configuring the nested ultrasonic sensor and giving feedback information to the haptic device.The haptic device consisting of five vibration motors can realize the haptic through the vibration of user＇s finger using the position information of the obstacle received feedback.In addition,it has high accuracy to recognize the surrounding environment and realizes the various situations with the fuzzy controller and the nested ultrasonic sensors.     

投影方法用于网络机器人图像帧内编码

针对基于Internet的机器人遥操作系统中MPEG4算法的帧内编码问题,利用图像投影原理和机器人运动学方程,该文提出了一种优化措施,即快速实现机器人部分视频对象分割,从而满足帧内编码改进算法的要求。     

基于Simulink∕RTW的机器人遥操作系统的设计与实现

以实际工业应用为背景,基于Simulink / RTW,设计了一套机器人遥操作系统.在SolidWorks软件和MATLAB / Simulink环境下,分别构建了从机械手的三维模型和遥操作系统的控制模型,通过合适的软件接口,实现了遥操作系统的可视化联合仿真.在此基础上,通过Simulink / RTW工具箱,配合封装的I / O硬件功能模块,实现了快速原型代码的自动生成.使用Links Box实时仿真器作为下位机,通过电机运动控制卡实现与各关节电机驱动及各类传感器的连接,完成遥操作系统的设计.最后,对遥操作系统进行实验验证及性能分析.实验结果验证了该遥操作系统的正确性和有效性.     

空间机器人遥控、自主与协同操作的软件基础

空间机器人控制语言是实现空间机器人三种控制方式:遥控操作,自主操作和协同操作的软件基础,本文描述了该语言的基本结构,对于自主方式,给出了编程示例;对于遥控方式,运用程序辅助的方法,解决了操作员单独进行主/从操作时难以解决的问题.     

Design and Analysis of Internet-Based Tele-Coordinated Multi-Robot Systems

The coordination of multi-robots is required in many scenarios for efficiency and task completion. Combined with teleoperation capabilities, coordinating robots provide a powerful tool. Add to this the Internet and now it is possible for multi-experts at multi-remote sites to control multi-robots in a coordinated fashion. For this to be feasible there are several hurdles to be crossed including Internet type delays, uncertainties in the environment and uncertainties in the object manipulated. In addition, there is a need to measure and control the quality of tele-coordination. To this end, the measure of force sensed by each robot is suggested and justified as a coordination index. It was proven that if n robots are event-transparent and event-synchronous then they can be teleoperated under random delay conditions to coordinate to any index value, which is feasible under no delay conditions. The design procedure that ensures a system can satisfy a small coordination index was presented and analyzed.In addition, the design and analysis of event-synchronous systems using Petri Nets is detailed. The Petri Net design methodology is presented for both event-synchronous single operator single robot teleoperation systems and event-synchronous multi-operator multi-robot teleoperation systems.The theory developed was tested by bilaterally tele-coordinating two mobile manipulators via the Internet. The experimental results confirmed the theoretical results presented.     

外科手术机器人技术发展现状及关键技术分析

外科诊疗是医疗机器人研究和应用最广泛也是比较成熟的领域,目前研究主要集中在脑神经外科、整形外科、介入式无损检测、角膜移植等领域.为促进我国医疗机器人技术的研究和发展,在充分论述医疗机器人研究意义的基础上,对国内外典型外科手术机器人的研究及应用状况作了详细介绍,并对研究医疗机器人所涉及的手术机器人机构、医学三维图像建模、虚拟手术仿真、遥操作网络传输等关键技术进行了详尽的分析,同时指出了今后的发展方向.     

Bilateral Teleoperation of Multiple Agents with Formation Control

This paper studies the formation problem for multislave teleoperation system over general communication networks, where multiple mobile slave agents are coupled with a single master robot. The forward and backward network transmission time delays are assumed to be asymmetric and time-varying. Due to the quantization in the network, a dynamic quantization strategy is provided to quantize the output signals of the master robot and slave agents before transmitting. Then, a novel masterslave protocol is designed to achieve the formation task under variable time delays and quantization. Additionally, the sufficient conditions for stability are presented to show that the formation protocol can stabilize the master-slave system under variable time delays and quantization. Finally, simulation are performed to show effectiveness of the main results.      

一种新的力觉临场感遥操作机器人系统的控制方法

在分析已有控制方法的基础上，提出了一种新型的控制方法，其主要特点是从手由主从手之间的力偏差信号控制，主手由二者的力偏差和位置偏差控制；建立了系统的动力学模型，并根据二端口网络理论，从理论上研究了新方法在理想透明性能情况下应满足的关系，结果对于力觉临场感遥操作机器人控制器的设计应用具有一定参考价值。     

Task-space synchronisation of nonlinear teleoperation with time-varying delays and actuator saturation

ABSTRACT

In a nonlinear teleoperation system controlled for task-space position tracking, while the time-varying delay in the communication channel has been addressed, the actuator saturation has not been taken into account yet. Considering that in practice, the actuator saturation is a serious constraint, disregarding it in the controller design stage can cause problems. In this paper, we have proposed a control framework to ensure end-effectors position tracking while satisfying sub-task control in the presence of the nonlinear dynamics for the telemanipulators, bounded time-varying delays in the communication channels and saturation in the actuators. We have shown that in free motion and when the operator applies a bounded force to the local robot, the proposed controller not only guarantees the position convergence of the end-effectors but also guarantees the accomplishment of the sub-task control. The efficiency of the proposed control algorithm is validated showing a number of numerical simulations.     

Adaptive finite‐time control for bilateral teleoperation systems with jittering time delays

In this paper, we present a robust adaptive control algorithm for a class of bilateral teleoperation systems with system uncertainties and jittering time delays. The remarkable feature of jittering delays is that time delays change sharply and randomly. Conventional controllers would fail because jittering time delays introduce serious chattering. To address the jittering issue, a novel jittering‐free scheme is developed by relaxing and extending the frequently used constant upper bound. Moreover, an adaptive law was incorporated with the Chebyshev neural network to deal with the system uncertainties. To obtain finite‐time synchronization performance, a fast terminal sliding mode controller is proposed through the technique of “adding a power integrator.” With the proposed control scheme, the robust finite‐time convergence performance is guaranteed. The settling time can be further calculated with the controller parameters. The simulation and experiment results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.