Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : October 08, 2022 - October 09, 2022
Robot systems capable of experiencing remote environments are urgently required for future lack of manpower and aging society. In this study, the development of the tele-existence robot arm in which human beings can experience not only the haptic environment but also the thermal environment was focused on. In this report, the temperature transmission system was actually developed and the trial operations were conducted. In the operations, a remote finger-tip-like temperature measuring unit touching a moderately (50degC)-heated test block (aluminum or PMMA) transmitted a PWM signal of a temperature variation to an on-site wearable unit. Consequently, the reproduction of the remote temperature sensing data was succeeded by controlled heating based on the transmitted information in the wearable unit. In this paper, the reproducibility was indicated by the result of the temperature variation of the temperature measurement unit of the on-site finger probe in the wearable unit.
