Tomomasa Sato

Intelligent and cooperative control of telerobot tasks

Techniques of intelligent and cooperative control of a telerobot have been implemented in a telerobot system called MEISTER (model enhanced intelligent and skilful teleoperational robot), which integrates a task knowledge base and cooperative control to realize man/robot cooperation in task execution from the intelligent level to the motion level. To support multilevel man/robot cooperation, MEISTER is equipped with a motion understanding system that maintains the world model even when the human operator executes tasks through direct maneuvering of the robot. The system is described, and a flame test chemical experiment showing how the proposed techniques for man/robot cooperation work in a telerobot task is reported.<<ETX>>The authors describe techniques for intelligent and cooperative control of a telerobot. The techniques are implemented in a novel telerobot system, MEISTER, which is composed of a task knowledge base, a cooperative control system, and a motion understanding system. A demonstration of a chemical experiment shows how the proposed techniques for man/robot cooperation work in a telerobot task.<<ETX>>

Intelligent remote control of robots

An industrial robot is supposed to perform operations just as programmed, in contrast to a service robot which is required to have the ability to work in dialogue and in cooperation with man. Intelligent remote control robotics is the study of ways to provide remote controllable machines with the ability of service robots. This paper outlines such a study