Micro-macro tele-manipulation system

Abstract

In recent years, robotic manipulator system have been developed in various fields for various purposes. Today there are many systems in practical use. However most of them are considered on the assumption that the size of slave manipulator is nearly equal to the size of master manipulator. We have developed a bilateral controlled master-slave manipulator system to manipulate targets of quite different size from our body. We can not manipulate such size of targets by conventional ways. Thus, we try to make the target scale equal to our scale virtually. In this paper we describe the basic control structure, and report the primary experimental results.<>