Title
On the use of shunt impedances versus bounded environment passivity for teleoperation systems
Abstract
This paper analyses and compares two passivity-based approaches that allow to include a-priori knowledge on the dynamic range of the human operator and/or the environment. This can lead to less conservative teleoperation systems compared to systems designed to be purely passive or absolutely stable. The first approach under investigation is a method where the absolute stability is analysed of a teleoperation system augmented with shunt impedances in series and/or parallel with the teleoperation system. It is shown that the traditional interpretation of the use of shunt impedances is not valid and a more accurate description of how to use this method is presented. The second approach under investigation is the bounded environment (operator) method. It is shown that the original idea to restrict the analysis to the so-called worst-case scenarios of a pure mass and a pure stiffness as environment can be too simplistic. Illustrative examples with mass-spring-damper systems fixed to the ground and floating objects as environments are made to demonstrate this in detail. In conclusion, this paper shows that embedding environment knowledge into the controller analysis/design is not straightforward and further research should be dedicated to determine which bounds should be used to obtain practically stable systems for different applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979988
Robotics and Automation
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile robots,stability,telecontrol,bounded environment,bounded environment passivity,dynamic range,floating objects,ground objects,human operator,mass spring- amper systems,shunt impedances,stability,teleoperation systems
Passivity,Teleoperation,Control theory,Embedding,Control theory,Control engineering,Operator (computer programming),Engineering,Admittance,Mobile robot,Bounded function
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2011
1
1050-4729
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-61284-386-5
1
0.37
References 
Authors
11
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bert Willaert1324.39
Michel Franken2152.97
Hendrik Van Brussel353967.67
Emmanuel B. Vander Poorten410120.19
Emmanuel B. Vander Poorten510120.19
Van Brussel, H.613919.47