Teleoperation via bilateral behavior media: control, accumulation and assistance

Visually based control, accumulation and assistance systems are presented as an effective environment for teleoperation. We developed the bilateral behavior media (BBM) paradigm and implemented systems which offer a status driven interface, collection of sampled control behavior, and operator assistance. The paradigm emphasizes a human-intuitive visual specification of task completion states without resorting to image understanding, modeling or extensive calibration. Visually based teleoperation has been effectively applied in a variety of tasks where an operator´s past experience in the macroworld is not applicable to the physics and scenario experienced in the microworld. Experiments of manipulating individual biological cells have shown the success of the visually based BBM paradigm