Task-space hybrid motion/force control of bilateral teleoperation with unsymmetrical time-varying delays

The control of bilateral teleoperators is challenging due to the complexity of their nonlinear dynamics, the time delays in the communications as well as the wide range of practical real applications. In this paper, operational space adaptive control of hybrid motion/force synchronization is proposed for bilateral networked teleoperation system with asymmetric time-varying delays in communication channels. The adaptive control with parameter update mechanism is developed to deal with the different kinematics, dynamics uncertainties and external disturbances for the master robot and the slave robot. The system stability is rigorously proved using Lyapunov stability synthesis. The proposed adaptive control is robust against relative motion disturbances, parametric uncertainties and time delay, which is validated by extensive simulation studies.