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Vol: 52(66) No: 1 / March 2007      

Time Domain Passivity Control based Stabilization of Teleoperation Systems in the Presence of Constant Time Delays
Hubert Roth
Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, University of Siegen, Siegen, 57068, Germany, phone: (271) 740-4438, e-mail: hubert.roth@uni-siegen.de
Asif Iqbal
IPP Multi Sensorics, ZESS (Center for Sensor Systems), University of Siegen, Siegen, 57068, Germany, phone: (271) 740-2340, e-mail: iqbal@ipp.zess.uni-siegen.de


Keywords: time domain passivity control, time delay, teleoperation, stabilization

Abstract
Time domain passivity control can be used to stabilize the time-delayed teleoperation by considering the communication channel as an active component and to design passivity controllers for it using recursive prediction of slave side energy. However, the control actions by these passivity controllers result in large impulses that degrade the performance of teleoperator. Energy derivatives are used to remove these effects, which also forces the system to always dissipate energy and thus stop the occasional accumulation of a large amount of negative energy. To enhance the accuracy of energy estimation, Simpson\'s rule based recursive parabolic integration of the power function is employed instead of simple rectangular summation. Simulation results proving the usefulness of the proposed approach are given. Furthermore, it is shown that the given control scheme also stabilizes time-varying environments.

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