Technologies for control of advanced telerobotics

人们希望使用先进的机器人来完成困难、肮脏和危险的任务，而不是人类。机器人灵巧的操作能力限制了它们的能力。目前由工业合作伙伴提供的硬件使机器人具有与人类相当的操作能力，但现在的使用基本上受到前端控制系统的限制。为了克服这一限制，我们将开发一种基于“基站”的新设计控制系统，该基站使用超宽带信号来精确定位单元内的“定位器”天线。这些天线将被放置在操作员戴的手套上。这将提供一种简单的、符合人体工程学的方法来传达人类操作员的手的位置，从而有效地控制机器人手。所提出的系统也有令人兴奋的应用在表演行业的大集合控制与精确操作，也在医疗系统的精确手术机器人。

It is desirable to use advanced robots for difficult, dirty and dangerous tasks, rather than humans. The capabilities of robots are limited by their dextrous manipulation abilities. Current hardware provided by the industrial partner gives robots manipulation capabilities comparable to humans, but use is now fundamentally limited by front-end control systems. To overcome this limitation, we will develop a new design of control system, based around a "base station" that uses ultra- wide-band signals to locate "locator" antennas precisely within the unit. These antennas will be placed on gloves worn by human operators. This will offer a simple, ergonomic method to communicate the location of the human operator's hand and hence effectively control the robotic hand. The proposed system has also exciting applications in the performance industry for large sets control with accurate manipulation and also in medical systems as precise surgery robotic.