Telerobotics

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Telerobotics is concerned with remote controlled robots, possibly semi-autonomous, in which telepresence and teleoperations is combined. Telerobotics are used in operations for many applications and domains, like (petro)chemical industry, Healthcare, Defense and by large asset owners on land, subsea and in space.

Our approach is to provide the human operator with full perceptual and manipulation capabilities to intuitively perceive the remote environment and act as if being present at the remote site. A major advantage of this telerobotics approach is that it optimally benefits from combining the cognitive ability of the human operator with the robotic capabilities at a distance. But this also imposes big challenges, like the “situational awareness” of the human operator, “robotic sensing” and “adaptive automation” for partial autonomy.

TNO and UT have gained extensive knowledge, expertise and technology to master these challenges. In i-Botics these are further developed and safely implemented in value adding robotic applications.