Symmetric Impedance Matched Teleoperation with Position Tracking

In this paper, we propose a novel passivity-based teleoperation architecture for bilateral force and position tracking control problem. It has the passivity-based symmetric impedance matched architecture with a virtual damping. The novel teleoperation can solve the problems of position tracking. Lyapunov stability methods are used to establish the range of position control gains on the master and slave side. We show the asymptotical stability of the system. Then the controller is designed considering a trade-off between an operationability and a position tracking performance. Experimental results show the effectiveness of our proposed symmetric impedance matched teleoperation compared with the conventional one