Rea Gill

Psychology

(University of Reading)

Main supervisor: Dr Peter Scarfe

Second supervisor: Prof William Harwin

Research project: Understanding sensorimotor optimisation in bimanual telerobotics from a human user perspective.

Research description: Our everyday movements are effortless, yet this contrasts dramatically with the difficulty of performing even simple tasks when working at a distance using a robotic telemanipulator system e.g., in robot assisted surgery or remote maintenance in the nuclear sector. The aim of this project is to parametrically map out how sensory-transforms (e.g., differences in rotation, translation, and scale) between visual and proprioceptive/haptic workspaces impact the usability of bimanual (two handed) operations in a state of the art visual-haptic telemanipulator system. This is critical, as current systems are difficult to use, require a large amount of training to be mastered, and are as a result highly costly to operate.

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