Industrial Robot: Volume 26 Issue 3
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The international journal of robotics research and applicationTable of contents
Teleoperator slave ‐ WAM design methodology
William T. Townsend, Jeffrey A. GuertinThis paper recommends an improved design methodology for the slave half of teleoperator systems based on the notion of master‐slave symmetry. Traditional slaves consist of a…
Robots for the dangerous tasks
Jack HollingumLast December a meeting of the SILVER Robotics Special Interest Group was held at the Land Systems Section of DERA at Chertsey, UK, and addressed the subject of robotics in…
Automating teleoperation
Geoff PegmanDiscusses the requirement for teleoperation and the optimum division of tasks between the human operator and the robot controller. Concludes that a combination of adaptive…
Telexistence and R‐Cubed
Susumu TachiTelexistence (tele‐existence) is technology which enables a human being to have a real time sensation of being at a remote location, while giving the person the ability to…
Decommissioning of nuclear facilities using remotely operated equipment
Mike ParrThis paper describes the design development and testing of the remotely operated equipment which will be deployed to decommission the redundant Caesium Extraction Plant located at…
ARM and Rovsim: extending our reach
Trevor Heale, Trevor LarkumThis paper describes the development of the ARM System, an advanced subsea manipulator for weld inspection. ARM uses an advanced man‐machine interface and provides robotic control…
Transparent telepresence research
Gordon MairThis article outlines some of the recent telepresence and teleoperation work being carried out in the Transparent Telepresence Research Group at the University of Strathclyde…
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- Dr Dimitrios Chrysostomou