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In this paper, a teleoperation system of a robot arm with position measurement function and visual supporting function is developed. The working robot arm is remotely controlled by the manual operation of the human operator and the autonomous control via visual servo. The visual servo employs the template matching technique. The position measurement is realized using a stereo camera based on the angle-pixel characteristic. The visual supporting function to give the human operator useful information about the teleoperation is also provided. The usefulness of the proposed teleoperation system is confirmed through experiments using an industrial articulated robot arm.
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Matsuda, Y., Sugi, T., Goto, S. et al. Teleoperation of robot arm with position measurement via angle-pixel characteristic and visual supporting function. Artif Life Robotics 21, 478–485 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-016-0289-2
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