Title :
Real-time control interface for (DM)2
Author :
Nelson, Donald D. ; Xu, Yangsheng
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
The Dual-Use Mobile Detachable Manipulator, or (DM)2, is a modular robot with reconfigurable hardware and real-time controls for lunar exploration and maintenance. Since the controls software is used directly only at a very low level, the purpose of the user interface is to create an abstraction through which the robot is controlled. This is accomplished with the use of interactive graphics to automatically generate and communicate lower level robotic commands, making the robot more usable
Keywords :
manipulators; Dual-Use Mobile Detachable Manipulator; abstraction; controls software; interactive graphics; lower level robotic commands; lunar exploration; lunar maintenance; modular robot; real-time control interface; reconfigurable hardware; user interface; Automatic control; Delta modulation; Graphics; Hardware; Manipulators; Mobile robots; Moon; Robot control; Robotics and automation; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Control Applications, 1995., Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Albany, NY
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2550-8
DOI :
10.1109/CCA.1995.555774
