RoboCon: Operator interface for robotic applications
Carnegie Mellon U. and ORNL`s Robotics and Process Systems Division are developing a state-of-the-art robot operator control station (RoboCon) with standardized hardware and software control interfaces to be adaptable to a variety of remote and robotic equipment currently funded by DOE`s Office of Science & Technology Robotics Technology Development Program. The human operation and telerobotic and supervisory control of sophisticated and remote and robotic systems is a complex, tiring, and non-intuitive activity. Since decontamination & decommissioning, selective equipment removal, mixed waste operations, and in-tank cleanup are going to be a major future activity in DOE environmental restoration and waste management cleanup agenda, it seems necessary to utilize an operator control station and interface which maximizes operator comfort and productivity.
- Research Organization:
- Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States). Robotics Inst.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AR21-96MC33078
- OSTI ID:
- 492007
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/MC/33078--97/C0824; CONF-9610231--24; ON: DE97052264
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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