Telerobotic Control of Dexterous Dual-Arm Robots for D and D Operations - 18622
- Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)
- U.S. Department of Energy (United States)
Robotic systems hold the potential to significantly reduce exposure of workers to hazardous environments such as in the deactivation and decommissioning (D and D) of nuclear facilities. Our goal is to enable an operator with minimal training to easily control a remote dual-arm robot to perform demolition tasks with hand tools. We propose a system that combines semi-autonomous coordination of the robot's arms with an intuitive operator interface based on virtual reality (VR) technology. A limb coordination system enables independent control of the robot arms, as well as coupled motion required to hold and manipulate rigid bodies such as reciprocating saws, angle grinders and crow bars. Using a VR head mounted display and stereo video from the robot for situational awareness and tracked VR hand controllers to command robot arm movement, an operator will be able to walk up to the control console, pick up the controllers, engage the manipulators, fly the grippers, grasp a tool with one or both robot arms and easily move them in unison to perform tasks. We present preliminary results using simulation and a physical dual-arm platform based on the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory's Modular Prosthetic Limb, an anthropomorphic device that provides hyper-dexterous human-like manipulation capabilities. Anticipated benefits of the robotic system for D and D operations include improved situational awareness, increased mission complexity, and reduced operator training time, workload, and task execution times. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22977870
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US-20-WM-18622; TRN: US21V0498017915
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: WM2018: 44. Annual Waste Management Conference, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 18-22 Mar 2018; Other Information: Country of input: France; 10 refs.; Available online at: https://www.xcdsystem.com/wmsym/2018/index.html
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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