Hours:
16 hours (4 credits)

Room:

Aula Riunioni del Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Via G. Caruso 16, Pisa - Ground Floor

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Short Abstract:

Bilateral teleoperation (BT) enables to control remotely located mechatronic and robotic systems, while enabling the human operator to experience the remote environment as if directly encountered. BT is of paramount importance for different research areas, including communication, informatics, robotics and bioengineering, among the others. Despite its importance, BT comes with several challenges, the main is to guarantee the stability of the teleoperator loop. In this course, we will review the key ingredients of BT mediated through haptic interfaces and robotic systems. We will move from the characteristics of haptic interfaces and discuss the main control architectures and techniques to ensure stability despite the communication delays and the interaction with stiff environments. We will finally present possible application scenarios and presents hands-on-demos in virtual reality environments.

Course Contents in brief:

1. Introduction to Bilateral Teleoperation and Telerobotics
2. Haptic Interfaces for Bilateral Teleoperation
3. Stability vs Transparency
4. Two port framework and passivity techniques
5. Wave variables to handle communication delays
6. Case study: virtual reality environments
7. Review of main applications and hands-on-demos

Schedule:

1. 27/07/2026 - h 09:00 - 13:00
2. 28/07/2026 - h 09:00 - 13:00
3. 29/07/2026 - h 09:00 - 13:00
4. 30/07/2026 - h 09:00 - 13:00