Patent ID: 9682480
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: B25J,G05B,Y10S

Claim:
1. A system for teleoperation of a machine having at least one actuated mechanism and a predetermined number of degrees of freedom, said system comprising: a control station remotely located from a location of said machine, said machine controlled from said control station to perform a predetermined function; a two way real-time communication link between said machine and said remotely located control station; and a controller at said machine location having therein a program code, said program code configured to determine from data from one or more sensors at said machine location when an actual fault has occurred in said machine when said machine is performing said predetermined function, said program code further configured to determine from said sensor data, when the program code determines the occurrence of said actual fault, one or more fault types for said actual fault and transmit said one or more fault types to said control station for analysis at said control station, said controller further configured to receive, from said control station and after transmission of said one or more fault types to said control station, a selection of a recovery procedure for handling said one or more fault types, and wherein upon receipt by said controller of said selection, said controller executes predefined rules stored in said controller to start said recovery procedure.