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[127] Citation: B. Hannaford,
'Feeling is Believing: Haptics and Telerobotics Technology ,'
In "The Robot in the Garden, Telerobotics and Telepistomology on the Internet.", J.K. Goldberg, Ed., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999.
Abstract
Teleoperation and telerobotics are technologies that support physical
action at a distance. This distance could span a few yards though a
radioactivity-proof wall, or millions of miles through a vacuum to another
planet. Although this book focuses on the relatively recent class of
examples where the distance between operator and robot is spanned by the
Internet, this chapter summarizes the broader research subject of
teleoperation. Teleoperators and telerobots interpose distortion between
the operator and the environment. This distortion is sometimes a necessary
drawback of the system, or it may be intentionally introduced to produce a
useful result like magnification. In either case, these distortions pose
fundamental questions of telepistemology which the chapter will highlight
rather than answer.
The chapter will focus on the issues of time delay, control, and
stability, with illustrations from the history of telerobotics and
teleoperation. It is impossible to do justice to all of the important
technologies and the innovative engineers who developed teleoperation in a
short chapter, so I will present only a sample of the key ideas.
Telerobotics remains an active research area pursued by engineers
internationally.
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