Fiber Suspended Micro Force Transmission System Using Scaling Bilateral Control

Abstract

In this paper, friction-reduced scaling bilateral control system for micro force transmission is proposed. Recently, demand for micro manipulation is drastically increasing in the fields of medical or biological science. In order to support micro manipulation, many researchers are trying to apply force feedback to the manipulation. One of the methods is bilateral control with Reaction Force Observer(RFOB). Bilateral control system is composed of a master robot and slave robot. Slave robot tracks master robot's motion and transmits reaction force to operator at master side. In the conventional bilateral control system, if reaction force is smaller than frictional force of machine structure, operator cannot distinguish the slight reaction force at hand. In this paper, actuator is supported by fiber to reduce the frictional force. Furthermore, disturbance arisen by fiber tension is modeled, and compensated. Experiments are conducted to validate the proposal.