Telerobotics, Automation, and Human Supervisory Control

Telerobotics, Automation, and Human Supervisory Control
Author: Thomas B. Sheridan
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 1992
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780262193160

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For the past three decades, the author and his colleagues in the MIT Man-Machine Systems Laboratory have been carrying out experimental research in the area of teleoperation, telerobotics, and supervisory control - a new form of technology that allows humans to work through machines in hazardous environments and control complex systems such as aircraft and nuclear power plants. This timely reference brings together a variety of theories and technologies that have emerged in a number of fields of application, describing common themes, presenting experiments and hardware embodiments as examples, and discussing the advantages and the drawbacks of this new form of human-machine interaction. There are many places - such as outer space, the oceans, and nuclear, biologically, and chemically toxic environments - that are; inaccessible or hazardous to humans but in which work needs to be done. Telerobotics - remote supervision by human operators of robotic or semi-automatic devices - is a way to enter these difficult environments. Yet it raises a host of problems, such as the retrieval of sensory information for the human operator and how to control the remote devices with sufficient dexterity. In its complete coverage of the theoretical and technological aspects of telerobotics and human-computer cooperation in the control of complex systems, this book moves beyond the simplistic notion of humans versus automation to provide the necessary background for exploring a new and informed cooperative relationship, between humans and machines.

Evaluation of Gaming Environments for Mixed Reality Interfaces and Human Supervisory Control in Telerobotics

Evaluation of Gaming Environments for Mixed Reality Interfaces and Human Supervisory Control in Telerobotics
Author: Ida Bagus Kerthyayana Manuaba
Publisher:
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2014
Genre: Human-machine systems
ISBN:

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Telerobotics refers to a branch of technology that deals with controlling a robot from a distance. It is commonly used to access difficult environments, reduce operating costs, and to improve comfort and safety. However, difficulties have emerged in telerobotics development. Effective telerobotics requires maximising operator performance and previous research has identified issues which reduce operator performance, such as operator attention being divided across the numerous custom built interfaces and continuous operator involvement in a high workload situation potentially causing exhaustion and subsequent operator error. This thesis evaluates mixed reality and human supervisory control concepts in a gaming engine environment for telerobotics. This concept is proposed in order to improve the effectiveness of current technology in telerobotic interfaces. Four experiments are reported in this thesis which covers virtual gaming environments, mixed reality interfaces, and human supervisory control and aims to advance telerobotics technology. This thesis argues that gaming environments are useful for building telerobotic interfaces and examines the properties required for telerobotics. A useful feature provided by gaming environments is that of overlying video on virtual objects to support mixed reality interfaces. Experiments in this thesis show that mixed reality interfaces provide useful information without distracting the operator from the task. This thesis introduces two response models based on the planning process of human supervisory control: Adaptation and Queue response models. The experimental results show superior user performance under these two response models compared to direct/manual control. In the final experiment a large number of novice users, with a diversity of backgrounds, used a robot arm to push blocks into a hole by using these two response models. Further analyses on evaluating the user performance on the interfaces with two response models were found to be well fitted by a Weibull distribution. Operators preferred the interface with the Queue response model over the interface with the Adaptation response model, and human supervisory control over direct/manual control. It is expected that the increased sophistication of control commands in a production system will usually be greater than those that were tested in this thesis, where limited time was available for automation development. Where that is the case the increases in human productivity using human supervisory control found in this experiment can be expected to be greater. The research conducted here has shown that mixed reality in gaming environments, when combined with human supervisory control, offers a good route for overcoming limitations in current telerobotics technology. Practical applications would benefit by the application of these methods, making it possible for the operator to have the necessary information available in a convenient and non-distracting form, considerably improving productivity.

Advances in Telerobotics

Advances in Telerobotics
Author: Manuel Ferre
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2007-08-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3540713646

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A fascinating book that covers in detail all of the most recent advances in Telerobotics. A must-read for scientists, researchers and students in teleoperation, it describes everything from methods and experimental results to applications and developments. Its three sections cover human system interfaces, control, and applications.

CONTROL SYSTEMS, ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION – Volume XXI

CONTROL SYSTEMS, ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION – Volume XXI
Author: Heinz D. Unbehauen
Publisher: EOLSS Publications
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2009-10-11
Genre:
ISBN: 1848261608

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This Encyclopedia of Control Systems, Robotics, and Automation is a component of the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems EOLSS, which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. This 22-volume set contains 240 chapters, each of size 5000-30000 words, with perspectives, applications and extensive illustrations. It is the only publication of its kind carrying state-of-the-art knowledge in the fields of Control Systems, Robotics, and Automation and is aimed, by virtue of the several applications, at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students, Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers and NGOs.

Human-robot Interaction

Human-robot Interaction
Author: Michael A. Goodrich
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2007
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1601980922

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Presents a unified treatment of HRI-related issues, identifies key themes, and discusses challenge problems that are likely to shape the field in the near future. The survey includes research results from a cross section of the universities, government efforts, industry labs, and countries that contribute to HRI.

Robotics, Automation and Control

Robotics, Automation and Control
Author: Pavla Pecherková
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9537619184

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This book was conceived as a gathering place of new ideas from academia, industry, research and practice in the fields of robotics, automation and control. The aim of the book was to point out interactions among various fields of interests in spite of diversity and narrow specializations which prevail in the current research. The common denominator of all included chapters appears to be a synergy of various specializations. This synergy yields deeper understanding of the treated problems. Each new approach applied to a particular problem can enrich and inspire improvements of already established approaches to the problem.

Optimal Supervisory Control of Automated Manufacturing Systems

Optimal Supervisory Control of Automated Manufacturing Systems
Author: Yufeng Chen
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2013-01-23
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1466577541

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This monograph presents the state-of-the-art developments in the design of behaviorally and structurally optimal livenessen-forcing Petri net supervisors with computationally tractable approaches. It details optimal supervisory control problems arising in automated production systems and outlines a methodology to achieve the optimality purposes of

Humans and Automation

Humans and Automation
Author: Thomas B. Sheridan
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2002-07-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

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Human factors, also known as human engineering or human factors engineering, is the application of behavioral and biological sciences to the design of machines and human-machine systems. Automation refers to the mechanization and integration of the sensing of environmental variables, data processing and decision making and mechanical action. This book deals with all the issues involved in human-automation systems from design to control and performance of both humans and machines.

Cutting Edge Robotics

Cutting Edge Robotics
Author:
Publisher: I-Tech
Total Pages: 796
Release:
Genre: Robotics
ISBN: 3866110383

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