A Novel Flexible Virtual Fixtures for Teleoperation

This paper proposed a novel spatial-motion-constraints virtual fixtures (VFs) method for the human-machine interface collaborative technique. In our method, two 3D flexible VFs have been presented: warning pipe and safe pipe. And a potential-collision-detection method based on two flexible VFs has b...

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Main Authors: Du, Guanglong, Zhang, Ping
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3944649/
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spelling pubmed-39446492014-04-01 A Novel Flexible Virtual Fixtures for Teleoperation Du, Guanglong Zhang, Ping Research Article This paper proposed a novel spatial-motion-constraints virtual fixtures (VFs) method for the human-machine interface collaborative technique. In our method, two 3D flexible VFs have been presented: warning pipe and safe pipe. And a potential-collision-detection method based on two flexible VFs has been proposed. The safe pipe constructs the safe workspace dynamically for the robot, which makes it possible to detect the potential collision between the robot and the obstacles. By calculating the speed and the acceleration of the robot end-effecter (EE), the warning pipe can adjust its radius to detect the deviation from the EE to the reference path. These spatial constraints serve as constraint conditions for constrained robot control. The approach enables multiobstacle manipulation task of telerobot in precise interactive teleoperation environment. We illustrate our approach on a teleoperative manipulation task and analyze the performance results. The performance-comparison experimental results demonstrate that the control mode employing our method can assist the operator more precisely in teleoperative tasks. Due to the properties such as collision avoidance and safety, operators can complete the tasks more efficiently along with reduction in operating tension. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014-02-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3944649/ /pubmed/24693252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/897242 Text en Copyright © 2014 G. Du and P. Zhang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Du, Guanglong
Zhang, Ping
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Zhang, Ping
A Novel Flexible Virtual Fixtures for Teleoperation
author_facet Du, Guanglong
Zhang, Ping
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title A Novel Flexible Virtual Fixtures for Teleoperation
title_short A Novel Flexible Virtual Fixtures for Teleoperation
title_full A Novel Flexible Virtual Fixtures for Teleoperation
title_fullStr A Novel Flexible Virtual Fixtures for Teleoperation
title_full_unstemmed A Novel Flexible Virtual Fixtures for Teleoperation
title_sort novel flexible virtual fixtures for teleoperation
description This paper proposed a novel spatial-motion-constraints virtual fixtures (VFs) method for the human-machine interface collaborative technique. In our method, two 3D flexible VFs have been presented: warning pipe and safe pipe. And a potential-collision-detection method based on two flexible VFs has been proposed. The safe pipe constructs the safe workspace dynamically for the robot, which makes it possible to detect the potential collision between the robot and the obstacles. By calculating the speed and the acceleration of the robot end-effecter (EE), the warning pipe can adjust its radius to detect the deviation from the EE to the reference path. These spatial constraints serve as constraint conditions for constrained robot control. The approach enables multiobstacle manipulation task of telerobot in precise interactive teleoperation environment. We illustrate our approach on a teleoperative manipulation task and analyze the performance results. The performance-comparison experimental results demonstrate that the control mode employing our method can assist the operator more precisely in teleoperative tasks. Due to the properties such as collision avoidance and safety, operators can complete the tasks more efficiently along with reduction in operating tension.
publisher Hindawi Publishing Corporation
publishDate 2014
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3944649/
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