Object grasping by bilateral control on the net surface of net climbing robot

Abstract

This study proposes wireless bilateral control for object grasping on the net surface of a net climbing robot. When an operator controls the robot’s manipulator (arm), conventional methods using a button controller require learning the operation method. Furthermore, while increasing the number of operation commands allows for complex movements, this increase also raises the cost associated with learning the operations. This makes it difficult to achieve both intuitive operation and complex movements. Therefore, we propose bilateral control where the robot and the controller have an identical configuration, designating the robot as the follower and the controller as the leader, thereby achieving both intuitive operation and complex movements. Additionally, by transmitting the servo load on the manipulator when the net gets entangled during the object grasping operation to the operator as reaction force on the controller side, we enable the detection of net entanglement by the gripper.

Publication
26th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2025)