Remote Manipulator Sensory Feedback for Intuitive Slave Arm Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing remote manipulation devices lack the ability for operators to intuitively grasp the situation of the slave arm, leading to reduced work efficiency and increased operator fatigue.
Innovation Solution
A remote-control manipulator system that includes a manipulator, a slave arm, a situation information acquisition device, and an environment reproducing device, which acquires and reproduces environment information such as light, sound, smell, and image to help operators intuitively understand the slave arm's situation, thereby improving work efficiency and reducing operator fatigue.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If only visual display on television monitor is used for remote manipulation, then device complexity is kept simple, but operator's intuitive understanding of slave arm situation is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The environment reproducing device is segmented into multiple independent components: light reproducing device, sound reproducing device, smell reproducing device, and image reproducing device. Each component handles a specific sensory modality, allowing the system to provide comprehensive environmental feedback while maintaining modularity and manageable complexity in each individual component.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple types of environment information (light, sound, smell, image) are merged and reproduced simultaneously in the operator's space. This combination of different sensory channels creates a comprehensive environmental representation that significantly enhances the operator's intuitive understanding of the slave arm situation.
2Productivity
If comprehensive environment information is reproduced, then work efficiency is improved, but loss of time for information processing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The situation information acquisition devices continuously acquire environment information (light, sound, smell, image) in advance and in parallel, so that when the operator needs this information, it is already available for immediate reproduction. This eliminates sequential processing delays and enables real-time environmental feedback.
Solution Approach 2:
The system maintains continuous acquisition and reproduction of environment information across all sensory modalities simultaneously. This continuous parallel operation ensures that comprehensive environmental data is always available to the operator without interruption or time loss for switching between different information types.
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AI summary
A remote-control manipulator system which includes a manipulator, a slave arm installed in a workspace and configured to perform a series of works comprised of a plurality of processes, a situation information acquisition device configured to acquire situation information indicating a situation of the slave arm, an environment reproducing device configured to reproduce, in a space where the manipulator is installed, environment information relating to an environment in the workspace, and a control device. The control device is configured to cause the environment reproducing device to reproduce the environment information corresponding to the situation information outputted from the situation information acquisition device.