Abstract
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“BACKGROUND ART“Conventionally, a master-slave manipulator and a method of controlling the same are known.“For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a master-slave manipulator which, when a reaction forcemeasured by a force sensor exceeds a target force value set be forehand, inhibits operation of a slave arm sothat the slave arm does not follo w operation of a master arm in a force controlling direction set beforehand.The force controlling direction is a direction set substantially in agreement with a normal direction of awork object, and is a direction toward the work object a nd a direction away from the work object. Theslave arm is operated by a force c ontrol so that the target force value set beforehand becomes equal tothe reacti on force measured by the force sensor.
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