Time Domain Passivity Control-based Telepresence with Time Delay

This paper analyses the time domain passivity control approach in the time-delayed telepresence context, and proposes a method which provides stable operation. The passivity controller for the two-port network which is created by the bilateral control and communication elements in (J. H. Ryu, et al., May 2002) is shown to be not valid if a time delay is introduced in the communication channel. Classical stability analysis for the delayed system is presented and used as argument and benchmark for the proposed solution. Simulations and experimental results are discussed and compared with classical stability analysis