Usability testing of the human-machine interface for the Light Duty Utility Arm System

Technical Report · Tue Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 1994

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10189690· OSTI ID:10189690

Kiebel, G R; Ellis, J E; Masliah, M R

This report describes the usability testing that has been done for the control and data acquisition system for the Light Duty Utility Arm (LDUA) System. A program of usability testing has been established as a part of a process for making the LDUA as easy to use as possible. The LDUA System is being designed to deploy a family of tools, called End Effectors, into underground storage tanks by means of a robotic arm on the end of a telescoping mast, and to collect and manage the data that they generate. The LDUA System uses a vertical positioning mast, to lower the arm into a tank through an existing 30.5 cm access riser. A Mobile Deployment Subsystem is used to position the mast and arm over a tank riser for deployment, and to transport them from tank to tank. The LDUA System has many ancillary subsystems including the Operations Control Trailer, the Tank Riser Interface and Confinement Subsystem, the Decontamination Subsystem, and the End Effector Exchange Subsystem. This work resulted in the identification of several important improvements to the LDUA control and data acquisition system before the design was frozen. The most important of these were color coding of joints in motion, simultaneous operator control of multiple joints, and changes to the field-of-views of the camera lenses for the robot and other camera systems.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-87RL10930
• OSTI ID: 10189690
• Report Number(s): WHC-SD-TD-ER-004; ON: DE95001564; BR: 35AF11201/35AF11202; TRN: 94:021203
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: 20 Sep 1994
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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