Tutorial: Control issues in haptic teleoperation

Telerobotics is one of the most traditional fields of robotics and it played a crucial role in the history of robotics and of the mankind, especially in the areas of space and undersea exploration and of remote material handling. On the other hand, teleoperation is still a very active research area and many problems are still open. In particular, the design of the control strategy for coupling local and remote site is of paramount importance for implementing telepresence, namely the feeling of being directly interacting with the remote environment. The IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Telerobotics would like to propose a half-day tutorial for illustrating several successful control strategies for implementing high performance bilateral teleoperation systems.