A teleoperation support system with the help of dual views of Cartesian and configuration space

Abstract

We propose dual views of Cartesian and configuration space as a teleoperation support system. To overcome a transmission delay between master and slave robots. We use a 3D graphics display besides a master robot, which virtually represents a slave robot and its environment (a slave site). In this system, an operator picks up a sequence of good motions of a slave robot while watching the 3D graphics display. In this case, we discuss what kinds of graphics images are needed for an operator to select each robot motion adequately. In this paper, we prepare not only Cartesian space of a slave site but also its configuration space as graphics images. Moreover, the configuration space is expressed by not only a 3D whole space but also its 2D sliced image. Finally, usefulness and efficiency of the visual support system are ascertained in some experiments by several test subjects.