CA2103626A1 - Motion scaling tele-operating system with force feedback suitable for microsurgery - Google Patents

Motion scaling tele-operating system with force feedback suitable for microsurgery

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CA2103626A1
CA2103626A1 CA002103626A CA2103626A CA2103626A1 CA 2103626 A1 CA2103626 A1 CA 2103626A1 CA 002103626 A CA002103626 A CA 002103626A CA 2103626 A CA2103626 A CA 2103626A CA 2103626 A1 CA2103626 A1 CA 2103626A1
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Septimiu Edmund Salcudean
Joseph Yan
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Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
MOTION SCALING TELE-OPERATING SYSTEM
WITH FORCE FEEDBACK SUITABLE FOR MICROSURGERY

A robot suitable for micro-surgical application is formed by a robot arm having a position adjustable free end on which are mounted with their respectivestators in fixed relationship a master and a slave robot. The position and actuation of the moving element of the master (master floater) and the moving element of the slave (slave floater) are used to couple their moment such that the master floater motion and forces are scaled down and followed by the slave and the slave floater motion and forces are scaled up and followed by the master. The sensed environment forces on the slave floater and sensed hand (environment) forces on the master can be used to improve the coordination between the master and the slave.

Description

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MOTION SCALING TELE-OPERATING SYSTEM
WITH FORCE FEEDBACK SUIT~BLE FOR MICROSURGE~Y

Field of the Invention S The present invention relates to a robot arm having macro-position adjustment and micro-position adjustment.
Backgrollnd of the Present Invention Microsurgery involves tasks that require dexterity levels beyond the normal range of unaided human abilities including motions as small as a few rnicrons and applied forces as delicate as a few grams. Microsurgery operations commonly require up to three hours of intense work that is usually performed after several hours of routine procedure and so it follows reasonably that fatigue and frustration are significant problems for the microsurgeon.
Teleoperation is well knowll and is used as a way to extend the human reach into hostile or distant environments and has recently started to encompass the extension of human reach through barriers of scale to allow, for example, a person to work on an individual living cell as described by I.W. ~Iunter et al in an article entitled, "~ l\licrorobot for Manipulation and Dynamical Testing of Single Living Cells" in Proc. IEEE Microelectro Mechanical Systems, pp 102-106, Salt l ake City, February 1989 or to feel an atom surface, see R.L. Hollis et al., ~Towards a Telenano Robotic Manipulation System with Atomic Scale Force Feedback and Motion Resolutionn, in Proc. 3rd IEEE Microelectro Mechanical ~ystems, pp 115-119, Nappa ` Valley, C~, February 1990 or the other extreme, to feel the payloads of an excavator, see Mostogaa-Starzewski et al., "~ ~VIaster Slave Manipulator ~r Excav~qtion and Construction Tasks"; in Robotics and ~utonomous Systems, 4:333-337, 1989.
A fine motion technology known as Lorentz magnetic levitation which provides six degrees of freedom (6 DOF) limited range friction less motion with programmable compliance has been applied to a magnetically levitated (maglev) ` 30 robot wrist as described in Hollis U.S. patent, 4,874,998 issued October 1989, the `~ disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference and further amplified in a paper by Hollis et al., "Six Degree of Freedom Magnetically Levitated Variable .

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~ , Compliance Fine Motion Wrist", Design, Modelling and Control, IEEE Transactions on Robot;cs and Automation, 7(3):320-332, June 1991.
A force reflecting system cornpatible with the above described fine motion technologies described by Salcudean et al. in "A Force Refl~cting Teleoperation S System with Magnetically Levitated Master and Wrist" in Proceedings of the IEEE
Internat;onal Conference on Robotics and Automation, Nice, France, May 10-15, A number of applications of robotics which were used in the medical field ~ -have been described in the art, see for example; James McEwen, "Solo Surgely with lû Automated Positioning Platforms" in Proceedings of the New Frontiers in Minimally Invasive and Interventional Surgery, New Orleans, 1~, October 13, 1992; Lavalee et. al in "Image Guided Operating Robot, a Clinical Application in Stereo~actic Neuro Surgery" in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp 618-fi24, Nic~, France, May 10-15, 1992; Paul et al. in "A
Surgîcnl Robot for Total Hip ~eplacement Surgery" in Proceedings of the ~E~EE~
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp 606-611, Nice, France, May 10-15, 1992; and, Kazanzides et al. in "Force Sensing and Control of a Surgical Robot" in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on ~obot;cs and -Automation, pp 612-617, Nice, France, May 10-15, 1992.
Brief Description of the Present Invention For the purposes of the disclosure and claims the term "stator" is intended to describe the base or normally fixed portion of the master or slave of the robot and the term "floater'` is intended to mean the moveable portion of the robot. And the robot may be any suitable master/slave combination such as parallel drive mechanisms known as "Stewart platforms", but maglev floaters are preferred: ;
It is an object of the present invention to provide a motion scaling teleroboticsystem wherein the surgeon may accurately control minute movements of an instrument while feeling scaled-up forces representative of the forces applied on the tool.
Broadly, the present invention relates to a robot comprising an arm having a position adjustable-free end, said arm having joint connections constructed for macro-adjustments of said free end, an extension mounted on said free end, said ~ ~
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extension forming part of a micro-movement robot having in fixed relationship a slave stator and a master stator, a slave moving element (slave floater) cooperating with said slave stator and a master moving element (master floater) cooperating with said master stator, means for sensing the posi-tion of each of said master and said 5 slave floaters relat;ve to their respective said master and said slave stators, coupling means coupling said master floater and said slave floater in a manner so that movement of said master floater produces a scaled moment of said slave floater and ` moment of said slave floater produces a scaied movement of said master floater, said moment of said master resulting in a significantly smaller corresponding scaled 10 movement of said slave floater and said movement of said slave resulting in s;gnificantly larger corresponding scaled movement of said master floater.
Preferably said coupling means will include a programable compllter means to scale said corresponding scaled rnovements of said master and slave floaters in accordance with a selected program.
Preferably, said robot will further comprise means for sensing forces applied to said slave floater from its environment.
Preferably said robot will further comprise means for sensing forces applied to said master floater by its environment.
Preferably said coupling means filrther comprise means for modifying sensed 20 slave and said master environment forces and means for applying said modified forces to said master and said slave floaters respectively.
Preferably said coupling means will include a programable computer means to scale said corresponding movements of said master and said slave floaters andsaid sensed forces in accordance with a preselected program and wherein said !25 motions and forces are implemented for transparency in accordance with appropriate - - programmed processing of said master and said slave floater positions and sensed slave and master environment forces.
Preferably, computer-assisted means will be provided for controlling the compliance of the master and/or slave to guide the movement of the master and/or30 slave.
Preferably, means will be provided to manually over ride motion scaling of the master to the slave.

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Brief Description of the Drawings Further features, objects and advantages will be evident from the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the present invention taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which;
S Figure 1 is a schematic representation of the present invention with a coarse motion transport arm having a master and a slave mounted on its free end.
Figure 2 is an exploded view of an assembly representing one embodiment of either a slave manipulator or a master manipulator (with certain obvious modifications).
Figure 3 is an assembled slave manipulator with a tool mounted therein.
Figure 4 is a schematic representation of a computer control system suitable for use for the present invention.
Description o~ the Prererred Embodilllellts In the embodiment of the ir~vention shown in Figure l, the arm of the present 15 invention includes a coarse motion or macro~motioll robot arm 10 composed of a plurality of diEEerent links which in the illustrated arrar gement, include a base 12 first link 14, second link 16, third link 18, fourth linl~ 20, fifth link 22, sL~th link 24 and a seventh link 26, which forms part of the free end extension 28 that forms a common base 28 for a robot 31.
Obv~ously the macro-motion manipulator arm may have any suitable configurat;on and is not intended to be limited to the arrangement schematically`~ ilh~strated. While the coarse motion arm 10 has been indicated as an elbow-type manipulator with wrist actions or some form of pivotal actions, it will be apparent that other transport mechanisms coulcl be used, for example, Stewart platforms to permit the coarse manipulation of the extension 28 at the free end of the arm 10.
~ counterbalanced coarse robot with at least six degrees of freedom is the preferred construction wherein the centres of mass of the arm sections do not change significantly with changes in configuration ansl little or no power consumption is required to hold the arm 10 in position. As will be described below the coarse robot 10 must be easily backdriveable so that the system may easily be moved outo the way.
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The base 28 of the robot 31 forms a common base for the "stator" 30 of the master 32 and the "stator" 34 of the slave 36 which form tbe master/slave combination of robot 31. The master 32 has a "floater" 38 that is coupled (as will be described herein below in conjunction with Figure 4) via the computer system 90 to govern the movement of the "floater" 40 of the slave 36.
The slave 36 is provided with a suitable mounting means for holding a tool, such as the tool schematic illustrated at 42.
The robot 31 may be any suitable robot incorporating a master/slave relationship, but the preferred form will be a magnetic levitation employing system for the master and slave.
One suitable form of maglev slave 36 or master 32 manipulator for the robot 31 is shown in exploded view in Figure 2. Actuator illustrated being a slave since it is provided with an instrument or tool 42 mouIlteEl thereon by a suitable mounting schematically indicated by the flahge 41 which preferably will include a farce and torque sensor 43 interposed bet~een the mounting flange 41 and the floater 38 aswill be described below. The master and slave may be built essentially the same but to a different scale.
A suitable construction of the master 32 and slave 36 is disclosed in U.S.
patent 4,874,998, referred to above.
To further describe the master and slave systems, the stator (30 or 34) includes the stator iron core 45 mounted on the support rods 44 from the stator support ring 46 which also mounts in uniformly circumferentially spaced relationship around the axis of the manipulator, a plurality of peripheral stator magnetic assemblies 48. In the illustrated arrangement, there are six such magnetic assemblies 48 that cooperate with the correspondingly positioned floater coils 50 mounted on the floater core 52 (floaters 38 and 40). These floater coils 50 are flat spirally wound coils arranged with the major axes of adjacent coils 50 substantially perpendicular as illustrated. In the illustrated arrangement the coils 50 are positioned on the faces of a hexagonal cross sectional cylinder core 52.
The floater core 52 on which the floater coi}s 50 are mounted is secured to a floater top 54 which ls fixed to a floater shaft 56 by any suitable means ~in the : . . . . .
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illustrated arrallgements) by bolts not shown, passing through holes of the floater top 54 and threaded into an end cap 55 of the shaft 56.
Mounted between the floater top 54 and the mounting flange 41 of the interchangeable tool 42 there preferably is positioned a force and torque sensor 43 5 referred to above which senses the forces applied to floater 40. This sensed information is delivered to the computer system 90 (as will be described in discussing Figure 4) via suitable connections not shown.
Mounted on the shaft 56 is the position sensor 58 for determining the location and orientation of the floater 38 or 40. The floater portion of the position sensor 10 58 mounts three symmetrically positioned light emitting diodes (LEDs) 59 which project light onto the surfaces of their respective two dimensional position sensing diodes (PSD), one for each LED, but only two which are schema~ically illustratedin Figure 2 at 60 as forrning part of the stator PSD assembly 64 which is fixed to the stator sllpport ring 46. Calcl~lations using the three pairs of coor(lin~tes generate(l 15 by the light being sensed on the stat()r PSDs 60 are used to generate position and orientation of the floater (38 or 40) with respect to the stator (30 or 34) in both the master 32 and slave 36.
The assembled unit is illustrated in Figure 3 with the tool 42 mounted thereon, and thus illustrates a slave as opposed to a master, however, the master 36 20 canbe essentially the same.
The coarse motion stage arm 10 must compensate for the weight of the extension 28 carry;ng the master 32 and slave 36 rnounted thereon and must be back drivable when the arm 10 is operating in the active (computer controlled) or passive modes and easily over ridden by the surgeon for example by manipulation of the 25 master beyond the range of movement of the master floater 38 relative to the master stator 30.
The control system 90 (see Figure 4) uses the sensed positions of the master and slave floaters relative to their respective stators to control the operation of the system so that the slave floater mimics the motion of the master floater and vice-30 versa, the motion of the master floater mimics the motion of the slave floater. Such"coordinated motion" will provide force feedback such that the forces exerted by the environment on the slave floater, and vice versa the forces exerted by the slave .

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floater on the environment mimic those exerted by the hand (surgeon's hand or the environrnent) on the master. Further use of the sensecl environment forces on the slave floater by the sensor 43 and or the sensed hand forces on the master floater by thew equivalent sensor in the master can be used to improve the motion coordination between the master and slave floaters and the fidelity with which the master and slave floaters mimic the forces exerted on each other using well known techniques.
In the case where an active positioning robot 10 is used the control system 90 also coordinates the motion of the coarse robot 10 with the motion of the masterand slave floaters by (as will be described below) directing the motion of the stator base 28 to track the master floater 38 or the slave floater 40 whenever the master floater or the slave floater is near the edge of its workspace, thus allowing the operator (surgeon) to pOSitiOll the tool within a large workspace.
The controller can also be used to vary compliance o~ the master and slave in a preprogrammed manner so that motion control can be "shared" between the operator (surgeon) and the computer. For example, the computer may guide the direction of a cut while the surgeon may control the depth and speed of the cut.As illustrated in Figure 4, the coarse transport system (arm 10) schematically indicated at 100 when it is used in tlle active mode to control the position of the extension 18 is provided wi~h robotic controls which normally include, for example, cylinders or magnetic devices functioning as controllable motors as indicated at 102 and with sensors as indicated at 104 to indicate the relative positions and orientations of the various Iinks 14, 16, etc,. of the arm 10 of the coarse transport system 100 so that its positioning can be defined, i.e. the position of the extension 28. The sensors 104 provide signals designating the location of the various arms via line 106 to a transport robot position orienting and sensing system 108 which feeds this information to the central processing unit or computer generally indicated at 110. The position and orientation system 108 feeds a signal to the central processing computer unit 110.
The master wrist control (master 32) as schematically indicated at 200, includes drive coils (floater coils 50) 202 used to position the master 32 (floater 38) and position sensors 204 (formed by the assemblies 58 and 64) to sensed the position 2~ ~362~

of the master floater 38 and deliver this information via line 206 to the masteroptical position and orientation system 208 which feeds this information to the central processing unit llO in as indicated by the line 210.
The slave manipulator system is essentially the same as that of the master and S as schematically indicated at 300 is provided with coils (floater coils 50) 302 which position the slave 36 (i.e. the slave floater 40) and with position sensors 304 (formed by the assemblies 58 and 64) that sense the position of the floater 4û of the slave 36 and feed this information via line 306 to the same positioning and orienting sensor station 208 as used for the master.
The master 32 (floater 38) and slave 36 (floater 40) are controlled so that the movements of the master floater 38 are mimicked by the slave floater 40 and viceversa, but with a scaling factor reducing the movements of the slave relative to the corresponding mornents af the master. 'i`hus if the master floater 38 is manipulated a corresponding, but down scaled (smaller) moment of the slave floater 40 is produced. Simiklrly if the slave floater 40 is moved a correspon(ling but llp-scaled (lager) movement of the master floater 38 is produced.
The sensors 304 for the slave wrist 36 may further include the force sensors in the head 55 that sense forces applied via the environment, i.e. the forces that resist movement of the tool 40 are schematically represented by the force and torque . ~ . .
20 sensing unit 308 connected via the line 310.
In the illustrated arrangement, the master controller 100 is also provided with force and torque sensors schèmatically represented by the force and torque sensing station 308 connected via line 210.
The master force sensor 43 measllres the forces exerted on the master floater by the operator (surgeon).
Whether the macro-movement arm 10 is passive a system or an active system when the master 32 or slave 36 is being manipulated beyond a selected maximum displ~ ement of the master 32 or slave 36 this moment may be applied to move into the macro-movement mode.
It is important that the surgeon or operator be able at any time to manually override and assume full command of the system for example to manipulate the tool 42 manually. This may be accomplished, for example, by locking the master floater ~' .

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to the slave floater with no scaling i.e. programming the scaling factor to 1, however, this may be difficult to accomplish quickly. Preferably the system is constructéd so that the slave floater 40 may be directly manipulated by the operator (surgeon) by griping the floater 40 of the slave 38 and directly control the movement of the tool 42. Obviously direct manipulation of the tool 42 requires that the remainder of the system track the operator's hand ~tool motion) to permit this manipulation as required by the operator.
Preferably the coarse fine motion coordination i.e. baclcdriving the coarse motion arm 10 from the master or slave floaters 38 or 40 respectively will be based lQ on position information the master. The master control will be programmed to have a deadband zone wherein motion of the master floater 38 has no effect on the coarse motion arm 10 and will simply result in the corresponding scaled motion of the slave floater 40. If the master floater 38 position relative to the master stator 30 is outside of this deadband the computer 110 is programmed so that when the arm 10 is in the active mode the arm 10 tracks the movement of the master.
Preferably a sole centring drift will be applied to the arm 10 tending to position the arm 10 relative to th~ master so that the arm 10 will always tend to be in the centre of the workspace of the master floater 38.
The central processing unit 110 converts the signals and the programmed - 20 input to an output that is directed back to the master and slave controls 200 and 300 and ~then programming is used to program the coarse movement back to the control100. As illustrated, the control for the coarse movement 100 includes a motor controller for the transport boom as indicated at 116.
The voltage controlled current drivers 118 are used to drive the coils in the .
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- The position of the master floater 38 is sensed and this position is then duplicated in the slave floater 40 by control of the floater coils 50 of the slave 36.
~' The reverse will also apply i.e. the master will track the movement of the slave.
However, the degree of movement of the slave floater 40 will be signi~icantly smaller 30 than the degree of movement imparted to the master as described above based on ` the programmed value of the scaling factor. Thus, the control coils 50 in the slave 36 will be activated to move the lloater 40 of the slave in essentially the same ~::
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manner or direction as the master is moved but in increments that are significantly smaller than the increments of movement imparted to the master 32 or vice versa.In addition the force feedback directly available as a result of the "coordinate(l motion" of the slave and master the forces sensed by the slave 36 5 (sensor 43) can be converted by the central processing unit 110 into signals for the voltage-controlled current drivers 118 for of the master control coils 202 to drive the master floater 38 to apply an additional feedbaclc force to the operator significantly larger than the force applied to the slave i.e. the force required to be applied by the operator to the master floater 38 to displace the floater 38 will be clependent on the 10 forces required to be overcome in moving the tool 42 magnified to a preselected degree.
The computer 110 may also be programmed to guidance controls as indicated by the block 112. This control applies supplemelltal voltages to the coils 50 of the master 32 so that movement of the master out of a preprogrammed path is resisted15 by increasing the feedback forces when the operator attempts to move the master along a course other than that predefined by the computer 110, for example the tool 42 may be directed (via the supplemental preprogrammed forces applied to the master ~2) to follow a selected course.
As example of the present invention, one would expect to build in to the 20 master and slave, characteristics as indicated in Table 1.

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Table 1 Master - Slave Characteristics Characteristics Floater Mass < 500 grams < 50 grams Maximum Continuous Force > 10 N 2 2 N -~
Peak Force > 40 N _ > 8 N
Motion Range + 4 mm ~ 2 mm translation translation __ + 5 deg. rotation ~ 5 deg. Iotation Position Resollltion ~ 0.25 ,~m . . .
Force Resolution ~ 0.005 N
Position Frequency Response > 10 Hz > 20 H~
Bandwidth (without added load) _ While the Table 1 provides a good example, obvious modification could easily 15 be made and the desired results still obtained.
- In operation, the surgeon will simply grasp the ma~ster 32 and manipulate the master floater 38 which in turn will manipulate the slave floater 40 but with a degree of movement significantly less than the movement applied to the master. Forces applied to the master to produce this movement will be significantly greater than the 20 forces applied via the slave to the tool to be manipulated and the forces sensed by the slave. Similarly the forces conveyed to the master floater 38 from the slavefloater 40 will be significantly high than the forces applied to the slave floater 40 base on the preset scaling factor described above.
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As above ;ndicated the position and force scaling can be programrned by the operator.
Having described the invention, modifications will be evident to those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the 5 appended claims.

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1. A robot comprising an arm having a position adjustable-free end, said arm having joint connections constructed for macro-adjustments of said free end, an extension mounted on said free end, said extension mounting a micro robot havingin fixed relationship a slave stator and a master stator, a slave floater cooperating with said slave stator and a master floater cooperating with said master stator, means for sensing the position of each of said master and said slave floaters relative to their respective said master and said slave stators, coupling means coupling said master floater and said slave floater in a manner so that movement of said master floater produces a scaled moment of said slave floater and moment of said slave floater produces a scaled movement of said master floater, said moment of said master resulting in a significantly smaller corresponding scaled movement of said slavefloater and said movement of said slave resulting in significantly larger corresponding scaled movement of said master floater.
2 A robot as defined in claim 1 wherein said coupling means includes a programable computer means to scale said corresponding scaled movements of said master and slave floaters in accordance with a selected program.
3. A robot as defined in claim 1 further comprising means for sensing forces applied to said slave floater from its environment.
4. A robot as defined in claim 3 further comprising means for sensing forces applied to said master floater by its environment.
5. A robot as defined in claim 4 wherein said coupling means further comprise means for modifying sensed said slave and said master environment forces and means for applying said modified forces to said master and said slave floaters respectively.
6. A robot as defined in claim 4 wherein said coupling means includes a programable computer means to scale said corresponding movements of said master and said slave floaters and said sensed forces in accordance with a preselected program and wherein said motions and forces are implemented for transparency in accordance with appropriate programmed processing of said master and said slave floater positions and sensed slave and master environment forces.
7. A robot as defined in claim 1 wherein said computer means further comprises computer-assisted means for controlling the compliance of said master and/or slave floaters to guide the movement of said master and/or slave floaters.
8. A robot as defined in claim 4 wherein said computer means further comprises computer-assisted means for controlling the compliance of said master and/or slave floaters to guide the movement of said master and/or slave
9. A robot as defined in claim 5 wherein said computer means further comprises computer-assisted means for controlling the compliance of said master and/or slave floaters to guide the movement of said master and/or slave floaters.
10. A robot as defined in claim 6 wherein said computer means further comprises computer-assisted means for controlling the compliance of said master and/or slave floaters to guide the movement of said master and/or slave floaters.
11. A robot as defined in claim 1 wherein said arm is back drivable and said computer means includes means to control the movement of said arm when the position of said master floater relative to said master stator is outside a selected deadband zone based on movement of said master floater.
12. A robot as defined in claim 3 wherein said arm is back drivable and said computer means includes means to control the movement of said arm when the position of said master floater relative to said master stator is outside a selected deadband zone based on movement of said master floater.
13. A robot as defined in claim 4 wherein said arm is back drivable and said computer means includes means to control the movement of said arm when the position of said master floater relative to said master stator is outside a selected deadband zone based on movement of said master floater.
14. A robot as defined in claim S wherein said arm is back drivable and said computer means includes means to control the movement of said arm when the position of said master floater relative to said master stator is outside a selected deadband zone based on movement of said master floater.
14. A robot as defined in claim 6 wherein said arm is back drivable and said computer means includes means to control the movement of said arm when the position of said master floater relative to said master stator is outside a selected deadband zone based on movement of said master floater.
15. A robot as defined in claim 7 wherein said arm is back drivable and said computer means includes means to control the movement of said arm when the position of said master floater relative to said master stator is outside a selected deadband zone based on movement of said master floater.
16. A robot as defined in claim 8 wherein said arm is back drivable and said computer means includes means to control the movement of said arm when the position of said master floater relative to said master stator is outside a selected deadband zone based on movement of said master floater.
17. A robot as defined in claim 9 wherein said arm is back drivable and said computer means includes means to control the movement of said arm when the position of said master floater relative to said master stator is outside a selected deadband zone based on movement of said master floater.
18. A robot as defined in claim 10 wherein said arm is back drivable and said computer means includes means to control the movement of said arm when the position of said master floater relative to said master stator is outside a selected deadband zone based on movement of said master floater.
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