Haptic system for robot teleoperation in confined spaces
AssigneeUniversity of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
InventorsJing Du, Qi Zhu, Tianyu Zhou
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Abstract
A system, apparatus, and method are provided for remote control of a robotic device, and more particularly, to a haptic system for robot teleoperation in confined spaces. A haptic feedback system for robot teleoperation is provided including: a robot; a robot control; and an upper-body haptic feedback garment including a first vibrating module array disposed across a front side of an upper body of an operator and a second vibrating module array disposed across a back side of the upper body of the operator, where the upper-body haptic feedback garment provides haptic feedback to the operator reflecting a position and orientation of the robot.
Claims20
A haptic feedback system for robot teleoperation comprising:
- a robot comprising a top side and a bottom side;
- a robot control;
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- an upper-body haptic feedback garment comprising a first vibrating module array of vibrating modules disposed across a front side of an upper body of an operator and a second vibrating module array of vibrating modules disposed across a back side of the upper body of the operator, wherein the first vibrating module array comprises a series of rows and columns of the vibrating modules and the second vibrating module array comprises a series of rows and columns of the vibrating modules,
- wherein the upper-body haptic feedback garment provides haptic feedback to the operator reflecting a position and orientation of the robot, and
- wherein activation of vibrating modules in a column of the first vibrating module array proximate a middle of the upper body of the operator provides an indication to the operator that the robot is oriented with the bottom side down relative to gravitational force.
A method for robot teleoperation with haptic feedback comprising:
- receiving control of a robot from an operator at a user interface, wherein the robot comprises a top side and a bottom side;
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- providing haptic feedback to the operator through an upper-body haptic feedback garment, wherein the haptic feedback is provided by a first vibrating module array comprising a series of rows and columns of vibrating modules disposed across a front side of an upper body of an operator and a second vibrating module array comprising a series of rows and columns of vibrating modules disposed across a back side of the upper body of the operator, wherein the haptic feedback to the operator reflects a position and orientation of the robot,
- activating the vibrating modules in a column of the first vibrating module array proximate a middle of an upper body of the operator to provide an indication to the operator that the robot is oriented with the bottom side down relative to gravitational force.
A haptic feedback system for robot teleoperation comprising:
- a robot wherein the robot is a snake robot, and wherein a head of the snake robot comprises a camera and an accelerometer, wherein the accelerometer identifies orientation of the snake robot relative to gravity;
- a robot control;
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- an upper-body haptic feedback garment comprising a first vibrating module array disposed across a front side of an upper body of an operator and a second vibrating module array disposed across a back side of the upper body of the operator,
- wherein the upper-body haptic feedback garment provides haptic feedback to the operator reflecting a position and orientation of the robot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.