Optimisation of robot teleoperation in confined space for extreme environments.
Robotic arms are widely used as effective manipulators throughout research and industry. Applications include warehouse picking, manufacturing, automated farming and operation within hazardous environments, where they are currently working or in development. However, when deployed within a confined space, their performance is often degraded due to controllers struggling to solve for a collision free path. Effectively teleoperating a robotic manipulator within a confined space (such as in applications for space, nuclear and medicine) requires optimisation and adjustment of currently existing technology.
This work explores the optimisation of the gripper hardware and the manipulator controller as well as the haptic requirements for teleoperation of an arm within a glovebox isolator. To do so, we are exploring the workspace of user movements utilising our novel hand tracking devices.
Team
Kat Styles
TJ Taiwo
Tom Scott
Antonia Tzemanaki
Funding
EPSRC FARSCOPE CDT
NCNR (EPSRC)