title: Development of anthropomorphic multi-D.O.F. master-slave arm for mutual telexistence.
abstract: We developed a robotic arm for a master-slave system to support "mutual telexistence," which realizes remote dexterous manipulation tasks and close physical communication with other people using gestures. In this paper, we describe the specifications of the experimental setup of the master-slave arm to demonstrate the feasibility of the mutual telexistence concept. We developed the master arm of a telexistence robot for interpersonal communication. The last degree of the 7-degree-of-freedom slave arm is resolved by placing a small orientation sensor on the operators arm. This master arm is made light and impedance control is applied in order to grant the operator as much freedom of movement as possible. For this development stage, we compared three control methods and confirmed that the impedance control method is the most appropriate to this system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Information Physics and Computing (IPC), Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656 Japan. tadakuma@star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
authors.forename: Riichiro
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tadakuma
authors.forename: Yoshiaki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Asahara
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kajimoto
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kawakami
authors.forename: Susumu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tachi
mesh_terms: D001132:Arm / Q000502:physiology*; D040761:Biomimetic Materials; D001701:Bionics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003491:Cybernetics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D004777:Environment; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007596:Joints / Q000502:physiology*; D008328:Man-Machine Systems; D008954:Models, Biological; D012371:Robotics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D014584:User-Computer Interface