Remote operation system
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorMasaki Haruna
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Abstract
A remote operation system includes an edge device that contacts a target, a motion operation transmission device that receives an operator operation for operating the edge device and outputs motion transmission information to the edge device, and a visual presentation device that displays an image of the target and the edge device. The edge device-includes a haptic sensing device that detects a haptic sensation to the target, a haptic optical converter that converts the haptic sensation detected by the haptic sensing device into a light intensity signal specifying the intensity of light, and a light intensity-controlled light emitter that emits light of an intensity corresponding to the light intensity signal.
Claims15
A remote operation system comprising:
- an edge device to contact a target;
- processing circuitry configured as a motion operation transmission device to receive an operator operation for operating the edge device and output motion transmission information corresponding to the operator operation to the edge device;
- and
- a visual display device to display an image of the target and the edge device, wherein the edge device includes a haptic sensing device to detect a haptic sensation to the target, and
- wherein the edge device further includes
- processing circuitry configured as a haptic optical converter that converts the haptic information output from the haptic sensing devices into light intensity signals, and
- a light intensity-controlled light emitter attached to a distal end portion of the edge device that emits light of an intensity corresponding to the light intensity signals obtained by the haptic optical converter.
A remote operation system comprising:
- an edge device to contact a target;
- processing circuitry configured as a motion operation transmission device to receive an operator operation for operating the edge device and output motion transmission information corresponding to the operator operation to the edge device;
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- a visual display device to display an image of the target and the edge device, wherein the edge device includes a haptic sensing device to detect a haptic sensation to the target,
- an imaging device to image the target and the edge device;
- and
- the processing circuitry further configured as a vision-based sensory transmission device, wherein
- the edge device further includes a passive marker, and
- the vision-based sensory transmission device
- identifies a position of the passive marker,
- generates visual haptic image information indicating an image corresponding to haptic information indicating the haptic sensation detected by the haptic sensing device, and
- superimposes marker point identification information obtained by a marker point identification function, the visual haptic image information obtained by a visual haptic image generation function, and imaging information obtained by the imaging device,
- the edge device includes a plurality of the passive markers, and
- the vision-based sensory transmission device estimates a marker point that has disappeared, based on the imaging information and the marker point identification information, when one of the passive markers has been hidden by the target and disappeared from the imaging information, and another passive marker is present in the imaging information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.