This letter presents a novel teleoperation interface that enables remote loco-manipulation control of a MObile Collaborative robotic Assistant (MOCA). MOCA is a new research platform developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), which is composed of a lightweight manipulator arm, a Pisa/IIT SoftHand, and a mobile platform driven by four omni-directional wheels. A whole-body impedance controller is consequently developed to ensure accurate tracking of the impedance and position trajectories at MOCA end-effector by considering the causal interactions in such a dynamic system. The proposed teleoperation interface provides the user with two control modes: locomotion and manipulation. The locomotion mode receives inputs from a personalized human center-of-pressure model, which enables real-time navigation of the MOCA mobile base in the environment. The manipulation mode receives inputs from a tele-impedance interface, which tracks human arm endpoint stiffness and trajectory profiles in real time and replicates them using the MOCA's whole-body impedance controller. To evaluate the performance of the proposed teleoperation interface in the execution of remote tasks with dynamic uncertainties, a sequence of challenging actions, i.e., navigation, door opening, and wall drilling, has been considered in the experimental setup.


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    Title :

    A Teleoperation Interface for Loco-Manipulation Control of Mobile Collaborative Robotic Assistant


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    Publication date :

    2019-01-01



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629



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