Remote Manipulation Systems

Focusing on the issues of remote control of manipulators in a free workspace, this text presents recent data on remote control for telerobots. The primary emphasis is on a systematic presentation of the materials using a comparatively few, not well-publicized, examples as illustrations, a systematic presentation of materials on the quantitative evaluation of quality of remote manipulation systems with practical implementation using test stands, a presentation of the author's own descriptions of remote-control systems, and the adaptive co-ordinate-parameter control method for telerobots. The data and ideas described in the book can be useful in the remote-control field, and also in the adjacent fields of robotics and automation. To that end, the book has been designed both to be informative in its field and as source material for researchers and engineers working in these fields, as well as graduate and undergraduate students with a corresponding specialization.