Patents Assigned to Sylvia A. Earle
  • Apparatus providing tactile feedback to operators of remotely controlled manipulators
    Patent number: 4655673
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for providing tactile feedback information to the operator of a remotely operated manipulator assembly, such as a robot arm, by mechanically coupling a vibration sensitive transducer to said assembly and audibly reproducing the transducer output for operator listening. The use of an accelerometer as a vibration sensitive transducer is disclosed as well as techniques for cancelling environmental noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1987
    Assignees: Graham S. Hawkes, Sylvia A. Earle
    Inventor: Graham S. Hawkes