A General Framework for Shared Control in Robot Teleoperation with Force and Visual Feedback

Abstract

In the last decade, the topic of human robot interaction has received increasing interest from research and industry, as robots must now interface with human users to accomplish complex tasks. In this scenario, robotics engineers are required to take the human component into account in the robot design and control. This is especially true in telerobotics, where interaction with the user plays an important role in the controlled system stability. By means of a thorough analysis and practical experiments, this contribution aims at giving a concrete idea of the aspects that need to be considered in the design of a complete control framework for teleoperated systems, that are able to seamlessly integrate with a human operator through shared control.