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<p>METHOD AND APPARATUS PROVIDING TACTILE FEEDBACK TO OPERATORS OF REMOTELY CONTROLLED MANIPULATORS by GRAHAM S. HAWKES An apparatus and method is disclosed for providing tactile feedback information to the operator of a remotely operated manipulator assembly (1), such as a robot arm (2), by mechanically coupling a vibration sensitive transducer (5, 19) to said assembly (1) and audibly reproducing (7, 8, 20) the transducer output for operator listening. The use of an accelerometer (19) as a vibration sensitive transducer (5, 19) is disclosed as well as techniques for cancelling environmental noise.</p> |