| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L15005/01 |
| Title: |
THE INTEGRATION OF OPERATOR VISUAL INFORMATION INTO FORCE-REFLECTING TELEOPERATOR SYSTEMS. |
| Principal Investigator: |
Daniel, Professor R |
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Engineering Science |
| Organisation: |
University of Oxford |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 January 1996 |
Ends: |
30 September 1999 |
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270,182
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Force reflecting teleoperator systems are used by the Nuclear Industry to perform tasks in contaminated environments, notably reactor maintenace and work-cell decommissioning. The best of the present systems provide a 'good sense of touch', but operators are limited in what they can do by the lack of good quality visual information. This project aims to develop a synthetic viewing system using techniques form model-based computer vision to provide the operator with better quality visual cuews. We hypothesise that an important role of the human visual system is its capacity to provide phase advance in te form of feed-forward to the operatr's muscles and we aver that this phase advance plays an important role in stabilising a force-reflecting teleoperator. The work has two key scientific objectives: (1) to investigate the potential of synthetic viewing for providing the cues needed by the operator to generate stabilising phase advance and (2) to investigate the potential of bilateral sensor ingtegration (that is making force information available to the vision system, and , dually, 'vision' information available to the force system) to better the behaviour of both systems.
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