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Abstract
The report describes research undertaken by the author into the design requirements for telecommunication with emphasis on the design, construction, and testing of the author`s novel anthrpometric and anthropomorphic master-slave arm system. Whike the building of teleoperated robot arms is a well established endeavour, the design and construction of arms for telepresence applications is a new field. Most of current telepresence research utilizes industrial robots arms. This research highlights the special requirements for telepresence arms and suggests the need for a new generation of teleoperated arms specifically designed for telepresence.
Current and previous work in this field is reviewed and analysis of human arm from an engineering prespective is provised.
The design rational for the new system is presented together with a full description of all the system elements. The bilateral system is PC based and has been designed to be low cost, lightweight, and particularly suitable for operation over the Internet. A novel graphical user interface and control system was designed specifically for telemanipulation. The controller introduces a smart technique for software control of the actuators thus minimisingh the total system hardware cost.
Throught the report probems encountered are described along with their subsequent solutions. The developed system was tested and results were presented; also unique experiments involving the used of mobile phone technology to drive the arm remotely are described. The system proved to be unique and useful in many applications that required remote manipulation. It is finally suggested that this work could form the basis of a new Internet compatible telemanipulation instrument that will have wide applicability.