A Peer-to-Peer Trilateral Passivity Control for Delayed Collaborative Teleoperation

In this paper a trilateral Multi-Master-Single-Slave-System with control authority allocation between two human operators is proposed. The authority coefficient permits to slide the dominant role between the operators. They can simultaneously execute a task in a collaborative way or a trainee might haptically only observe the task, while an expert is in full control. The master devices are connected with each other and the slave robot peer to peer without a central processing unit in a equitable way. The system design is general in that it allows delayed communication and different coupling causalities between masters and slave, which can be located far from each other. The Time Domain Passivity Control Approach guarantees passivity of the network in the presence of communication delays. The methods presented are sustained with simulations and experiments using different authority coefficients.

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