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Title: Enhanced teleoperation exhibiting tele-autonomy and tele-collaboration.

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OSTI ID:799834

This paper presents enhanced remote manipulation of tools for D&D tasks by extending teleoperation with teleautonomy and tele-collaboration. This work builds on a reactive, agent-based control architecture, which is well suited to unstructured and unpredictable environments, and cobot control technology, which implements a virtual fixture that can be used to guide the application of tools with passive force-feedback control. Developed methodologies are tested using simulation, and then planned to be implemented using a structured light sensor and cobot hand controller on a dual-arm system to measure the enhanced performance of key tool operations that are tedious and difficult to perform purely by teleoperation. This work significantly leverages some 2000 hours of operational experience gained during the D&D of the CP-5 reactor at ANL using a dual-arm remote manipulator system, as well as DOE's investment in the dual-arm system itself, which will serve as a test bed for the proposed investigations.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab., IL (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
US Department of Energy (US)
DOE Contract Number:
W-31-109-ENG-38
OSTI ID:
799834
Report Number(s):
ANL/TD/CP-107730; TRN: US0206144
Resource Relation:
Conference: Spectrum 2002: 9th Biennial International Conference on Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Meeting, Reno, NV (US), 08/04/2002--08/08/2002; Other Information: PBD: 17 May 2002
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English