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JRM Vol.19 No.5 pp. 577-584
doi: 10.20965/jrm.2007.p0577
(2007)

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Performance Evaluation of Teleoperation for Manipulating Micro Objects Using Two-Fingered Micro Hand

Kenji Inoue*, Daisuke Nishi**, Tomohito Takubo***,
Tamio Tanikawa****, and Tatsuo Arai***

*Department of Bio-System Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, 4-3-16 Jonan, Yonezawa, Yamagata 922-8510, Japan

**Olympus Corporation

***Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan

****National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST Tsukuba Central 2, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan

Received:
April 2, 2007
Accepted:
June 6, 2007
Published:
October 20, 2007
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Keywords:
micromanipulation, two-fingered micro hand, teleoperation, joystick, yeast cell
Abstract
We developed a dexterous micromanipulation system consisting of a two-fingered micro hand, an autofocusing optical microscope, an image processor, and user interfaces. The micro hand has 6 degrees of freedom (DOF), 3 DOF each for two fingers that work similar to a thumb and forefinger or chopsticks. This hand grasps, moves, rotates and releases micron-scale objects. In teleoperation mode, the user controls hand motion with a joystick or keyboard while observing the microscope image on a TV monitor. We evaluate teleoperation performance for manipulating micron-scale objects. Several types of motion command methods proposed include a keyboard or joystick as operation device, and position or rate command modes. The tasks experimentally evaluated are picking, grasping, moving, and releasing micron-size objects, i.e., a glass grain in air and a yeast cell in liquid. These are compared in positioning accuracy and task execution time.
Cite this article as:
K. Inoue, D. Nishi, T. Takubo, T. Tanikawa, and T. Arai, “Performance Evaluation of Teleoperation for Manipulating Micro Objects Using Two-Fingered Micro Hand,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.19 No.5, pp. 577-584, 2007.
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