• DocumentCode
    2601004
  • Title

    User interfaces for continuum robot arms

  • Author

    Csencsits, M. ; Jones, Bryan A. ; McMahan, William ; Iyengar, Vikram ; Walker, Ian D.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Clemson Univ., SC, USA
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    2-6 Aug. 2005
  • Firstpage
    3123
  • Lastpage
    3130
  • Abstract
    This paper presents new results for intuitive teleoperation of continuous backbone "continuum" robot manipulators. Continuum robots present unique challenges due to the nonintuitive (to humans) nature of their basic movements. We present a series of mappings, at both position and velocity levels, which provide human operators with a versatile and intuitive suite of options for joystick control of continuum robots. Results from implementations on two types of continuum manipulator hardware are summarized.
  • Keywords
    interactive devices; manipulators; telerobotics; user interfaces; continuum manipulator hardware; continuum robot arms; intuitive teleoperation; joystick control; robot manipulator; user interface; Actuators; Contracts; Hardware; Humans; Manipulators; Robot control; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Spine; User interfaces; Continuum manipulators; biologically inspired robots; tentacle; trunk; user interface;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2005. (IROS 2005). 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8912-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IROS.2005.1545434
  • Filename
    1545434