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US 2014/0156151 A1Published application
Remote vehicle control system
AssigneeiRobot Corporation
InventorsJacob Curtis Jurmain, Aaron John Powers, Marc Vollenweider, Jeffrey Joseph Berkley
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Abstract
A method for controlling one or more remote vehicles may comprise manipulating remote dexterous manipulators, translating movement of the remote dexterous manipulators into movement of the one or more remote vehicles, and providing a sliding work window allowing control of the one or more remote vehicles' entire range of motion without sacrificing control resolution.
Claims17
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A remote vehicle system, comprising:
- a remote vehicle, comprising a manipulator arm having end effector;
- and
- a portable remote control system, comprising:
- a computer in communication with the remote vehicle and configured to display a view of an environment of the remote vehicle on a display;
- and
- a remote dexterous control device in communication with the computer and comprising a hand held controller and a workspace in which the hand held controller is manipulated;
- wherein the computer is configured to translate movement of the hand held controller within the control device workspace into corresponding movement of a portion of the remote vehicle in a portion of the remote vehicle environment and is configured to translate the view of the remote vehicle environment on the display in a direction corresponding to movement of the hand held controller within the control device workspace, when the hand held controller is moved to a perimeter of the control device workspace.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.