Open AccessA Taxonomy for Heavy-Duty Telemanipulation Tasks Using Elemental Actions
Author(s) -
Alexander Owen-Hill,
José Breñosa,
Manuel Ferré,
Jordi Artigas,
Rafaél Aracil
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of advanced robotic systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1729-8814
pISSN - 1729-8806
DOI - 10.5772/57026
Subject(s) - computer science , automation , taxonomy (biology) , task (project management) , scheduling (production processes) , process (computing) , human–computer interaction , software engineering , artificial intelligence , systems engineering , programming language , mechanical engineering , operations management , botany , engineering , economics , biology
In the maintenance of large scientific facilities, telemanipulation procedures can involve various subprocedures which in turn are made up of a sequence of subtasks. This work presents a taxonomy which describes a set of elemental actions for heavy-duty telemanipulation, along with an example of these actions in a standard maintenance subprocedure. As maintenance tasks are often very different at high-level, this generalized way of deconstructing tasks allows a highly adaptable approach to describe the sequence of any procedure, which can then be used for such applications as task monitoring, automation or detection of incomplete tasks. We describe in detail the properties of each elemental action and apply the taxonomy to an example subprocedure to show how the process can be generalizable. An automatic state-machine creation stage is shown, which would be used at the task scheduling stage to simplify calculations carried out during the moment-by-moment execution of the task