Scaling Adjustment Method for Motion Copying System with Environmental Variations

Abstract

Machine automation is getting significant attention from the society due to the declining labor population in Japan. This paper considers Motion Copying System (MCS) that is known as the machine automation method. MCS is able to play back the saved motion if environmental conditions between the saving and loading phases are the same. The variation of environmental condition, however, degrades the motion reproduction performance because the tactile information needs the bilateral communication between the master and the slave, which can also be said of the sender and the receiver, unlike the visual or audio information. This paper proposes the scaling adjustment method for compensating the environmental impedance variation between the saving and loading phases. The effectiveness of the proposal was verified through simulation.