Adaptive control for force-reflecting dual user teleoperation systems

The aim of this paper is to develop an adaptive force reflection control scheme for dual master nonlinear teleoperation systems. Having a sense of contact forces is very important in applications of dual master teleopreation systems such as surgery training. However, most of the previous studies for dual master nonlinear teleoperation systems are limited in the stability analysis of force reflection control schemes. In this paper, it is assumed that the teleopreation system consists of two masters and a single slave manipulator. In addition, all communication channels are subject to unknown time delays. First, adaptive controllers are developed for each manipulator. Next, Input-to-State Stability (ISS) approach is used to analyze the stability of the closed loop system. Through simulation results, it is demonstrated that the proposed methodology is effective in a nonlinear teleopreation system.