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Head-controlled assistive telerobot with extended physiological proprioception capability

Salganicoff, M., Rahman, T., Mahoney, R., Pino, D., Jayachandran, V., Kumar, V., Chen, S. and Harwin, W. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3928-3381 (1995) Head-controlled assistive telerobot with extended physiological proprioception capability. In: Salganicoff, M. (ed.) Telemanipulator and telepresence technologies II. Proceedings of SPIE (2590). SPIE, pp. 108-119. ISBN 9780819419545

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1117/12.227935

Abstract/Summary

People with disabilities such as quadriplegia can use mouth-sticks and head-sticks as extension devices to perform desired manipulations. These extensions provide extended proprioception which allows users to directly feel forces and other perceptual cues such as texture present at the tip of the mouth-stick. Such devices are effective for two principle reasons: because of their close contact with the user's tactile and proprioceptive sensing abilities; and because they tend to be lightweight and very stiff, and can thus convey tactile and kinesthetic information with high-bandwidth. Unfortunately, traditional mouth-sticks and head-sticks are limited in workspace and in the mechanical power that can be transferred because of user mobility and strength limitations. We describe an alternative implementation of the head-stick device using the idea of a virtual head-stick: a head-controlled bilateral force-reflecting telerobot. In this system the end-effector of the slave robot moves as if it were at the tip of an imaginary extension of the user's head. The design goal is for the system is to have the same intuitive operation and extended proprioception as a regular mouth-stick effector but with augmentation of workspace volume and mechanical power. The input is through a specially modified six DOF master robot (a PerForceTM hand-controller) whose joints can be back-driven to apply forces at the user's head. The manipulation tasks in the environment are performed by a six degree-of-freedom slave robot (the Zebra-ZEROTM) with a built-in force sensor. We describe the prototype hardware/software implementation of the system, control system design, safety/disability issues, and initial evaluation tasks.

Item Type:Book or Report Section
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences > Department of Bio-Engineering
ID Code:19319
Publisher:SPIE

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