Model reference adaptive control for telemanipulation

A 1-DOF (degree-of-freedom) telemanipulation system is presented in this paper. The paper focuses on disturbance compensation of the haptic force feedback. The master and slave devices are connected via serial ports. The mechanism, which is applied as a human interface device, is subject to perceptible internal friction that must be eliminated. As a result, the operator would only feel the force feedback from the manipulated environment. The main contribution of this paper is the presentation of the telemanipulation device with a model reference adaptive control that compensates for the friction force using a direct model-based sliding mode algorithm.