...Shuai Yang; Bin Wang; Junyuan Tao; Zhe Ruan; Zihao Zhao; Hong Liu Purpose Robot demonstration data is of great significance for enhancing robot autonomy through data-driven methods such as imitation learning. High-quality robot data is mainly obtained through teleoperation. However, current...

...Sohaib Ahmad Sirwal; Babar Ahmad; Majid Koul Purpose This article aims to demonstrate how haptic feedback plays a critical role in enhancing control and precision in vision-assisted teleoperation, yet current systems are either costly, hardware-intensive or limited to basic binary cues. This work...

...Xingmao Shao; Lun Xie; Weiqiang Li; Chenjun Liu Purpose This study aims to propose a virtual fixture (VF) – assisted robot teleoperation framework that modulates the generated trajectory from demonstrations to response varying obstacles in complex environment. Design/methodology/approach First...

... Teleoperation Since its inception in the late 20th century, surgical robotic technology has played an increasingly important role in a growing number of minimally invasive and other surgical procedures. Robots offer high stability and positional accuracy; are capable of a greater range of motions than...

...Rob Bogue Purpose The aim of this article is to provide details of recent technological developments in robotic teleoperation. Design/methodology/approach Following a short introduction, the two main sections of this article provide examples of recent research involving the application...

...Xinyang Fan; Xin Shu; Baoxu Tu; Changyuan Liu; Fenglei Ni; Zainan Jiang Purpose In the current teleoperation system of humanoid robots, the control between arms and the control between the waist and arms are individual and lack coordinated motion. This paper aims to solve the above problem...

...Jing Zhao; Xin Wang; Biyun Xie; Ziqiang Zhang Purpose This paper aims to present a new kinematics mapping method based on dynamic equivalent points. In teleoperation, this method enables a robotic (follower) arm to mimic human (leader) arm postures and avoid obstacles in a human-like manner...

.... Joanne Pransky can be contacted at: joannepransky@gmail.com 03 06 2022 06 06 2022 06 06 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Teleoperation Humanoid robots Haptic devices Medical robots Artificial intelligence...

...Omer Faruk Argin; Zeki Yagiz Bayraktaroglu Purpose This paper aims to present a novel modular design framework for the haptic teleoperation of single-master/multiple-slave (SM/MS) systems with cooperating manipulators. Design/methodology/approach The user commands the remote-leader robot...

... can be contacted at: joannepransky@gmail.com 18 03 2021 20 03 2021 20 03 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Teleoperation Service robots Medical Medical robots Surgical robots Health-care robots...

...Xin Wu; Canjun Yang; Yuanchao Zhu; Weitao Wu; Qianxiao Wei Purpose This paper aims to present a natural human–robot teleoperation system, which capitalizes on the latest advancements of monocular human pose estimation to simplify scenario requirements on heterogeneous robot arm teleoperation...

... in robot programming. It then gives examples of recent research into AR-based robot teleoperation. Research activities involving the virtual fixtures (VF) technique are then discussed and finally, brief conclusions are drawn. Findings Because AR concepts were first investigated in the 1990s...

... is controlled by a robot; otherwise, it is controlled by a human. Third is the dual (multi) master–slave cooperative teleoperation system (Usmani et al., 2015) (multi-person teleoperation). It controls the different degrees of freedom (DOF) according to energy interaction. Canjun Yang can...

... at: joannepransky@gmail.com 09 05 2019 09 05 2019 10 05 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Aerospace Teleoperation Artificial Intelligence Simulation Haptic devices Subsea robotics Figure 1 Dr Howard Chizeck...

... movements. This can damage the manipulated object during the teleoperation process. In this case, such operator skills are highly required. Practical implications The developed control approach can be used in all applications, which require real-time human robot cooperation. Originality/value...

...Andrés Montaño; Raúl Suárez Purpose This paper aims to present a procedure to change the orientation of a grasped object using dexterous manipulation. The manipulation is controlled by teleoperation in a very simple way, with the commands introduced by an operator using a keyboard. Design...

... interaction. Design/methodology/approach In case of uncertainties in the robot parameters that are utilized in teleoperation studies and when the environment where interactions take place is not known and when there is a time delay, very serious problems take place in system performance. An adaptation...

... on the concept of human arm motion imitation by the robot end-effector. The teleoperation-based real-time control architecture is used for direct and effective imitation learning. Using this architecture, a self-sufficient trajectory planner is designed which has inbuilt mapping strategy and direct learning...

...Bin Fang; Fuchun Sun; Huaping Liu; Di Guo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a novel data glove which can capture the motion of the arm and hand by inertial and magnetic sensors. The proposed data glove is used to provide the information of the gestures and teleoperate the robotic arm...

... have designed the robot described in this paper specifically as a compact, low-cost tool for linemen to keep with them. The main purpose of the robot is maintenance and inspection. The benefits of this robot design are safety, low cost and simplicity in a teleoperated, multi-objective device...