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van Oosterhout, J. (author)The success of future fusion power plants as a sustainable energy source greatly depends on their uptime. This uptime relies on the plant's maintenance, which must be performed via tele-manipulation. Tele-manipulated maintenance is challenging, as exemplified by strictly selected and highly trained operators who still require more time to work...doctoral thesis 2018
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van Oosterhout, J. (author), Heemskerk, Cock (author), Boessenkool, H. (author), De Baar, Marco R. (author), van der Helm, F.C.T. (author), Abbink, D.A. (author)Tele-manipulation of heavy loads typically requires the simultaneous use of two asymmetric slaves: a crane for vertical weight support; and a robot for accurate lateral positioning. The industrial standard prescribes a pair of operators for such tasks (one operator to control each slave), although in principle one operator might control both...journal article 2018