Technologies for control of advanced telerobotics

人们希望使用先进的机器人来执行困难、肮脏和危险的任务，而不是使用人类。机器人的能力受到其灵巧的操作能力的限制。工业合作伙伴目前提供的硬件为机器人提供了与人类相当的操纵能力，但现在的使用从根本上受到前端控制系统的限制。为了克服这一限制，我们将开发一种新的控制系统设计，基于使用超宽带信号来精确定位单元内的“定位器”天线的“基站”。这些天线将戴在人类操作员戴的手套上。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，从而有效地控制机械手。所提出的系统还在性能行业中具有令人兴奋的应用，用于控制具有精确操作的大集合，以及在医疗系统中作为精密手术机器人。

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.