Manipulability servoing in null space for bilateral motion control of redundant manipulators

This paper proposes a manipulability servoing control method in null space for redundant bilateral control systems. In order to bi-directionally transmit vivid haptic sensation between motion control systems, both synchronization of position signals and “action and reaction” law of force signals must simultaneously be achieved. The proposed method adopts modal decoupling method based on Hadamard matrix to bilateral workspace control. Then, this paper investigates the possibility that the proposed method realizes the transmission of haptic sensation and the manipulability servoing between redundant haptic motion systems. In this paper, the effectiveness of the proposed method is confirmed by simulation results and experimental results.