The invention relates to a force application device for a control stick of an aircraft, said stick comprising a control lever that is connected to a motor comprising a drive shaft, said device having: a first pin connected to the drive shaft, a housing, a second pin secured to the housing, an electromagnet secured in relation to the housing, a movable actuator which comprises a magnetic material such that said actuator can be displaced depending on a supply of current of the electromagnet, and means for clamping the first pin and the second pin which comprise a first tooth and a second tooth, said device having an operating configuration in which the electromagnet is active and the actuator separates the teeth away from the first pin and the second pin, and a blocking configuration in which the electromagnet is inactive, with the first tooth and the second tooth coming into contact with the first pin and the second pin.

The disclosed embodiment is a control surface for use in a forest machine. The control surface includes a base panel, wherein the base panel comprises multiple buttons and/or switches to be used with an operators hand. A joystick protruding from the base panel. The joystick includes a handle part. The handle part has multiple buttons and/or switches to be used with an operator's hand. The handle part has a thumb button/switch to be used by an operator's thumb. The thumb button is adjustable in the height position in relation to the base.

A redundant and dissimilar system for monitoring the status of contactors of an aircraft control stick. This monitoring system comprises at least one electrical power source, at least one processor and several circuits for monitoring the status of the switches of the contactors. Each monitoring circuit comprises and electrical power source, a switch for each contactor, the switches of a contactor being connected to each other, and an electronic assembly provided with receivers arranged in series with each other. Each switch is arranged in parallel with at least one receiver so as to short-circuit the at least one receiver when the switch is in the closed state. Each processor measures and analyses an electrical feature of the electronic assembly, such as a mains voltage VE as the terminals of the electronics assembly, in order to determine the status of each switch.

A control unit for a remote control for controlling a machine, comprising: a processor device, at least one manually operable operating element provided on the control unit for controlling at least one machine function, which can be switched by the processor device between an activated state (b) and a deactivated state (a), and an activation sensor assigned to the operating element, which activation sensor comprises an effective sensor range and is adapted to detect a defined approach to the effective sensor range by an operator, the processor device being adapted to switch the operating element to the activated state (b) if the activation sensor detects the defined approach to the effective sensor range, and if no defined approach is detected during a preset period of time, to switch the operating element to the deactivated state, the control unit being adapted in such a way that operation of the operating element does not cause the machine function to be activated, as long as the operating element is in the deactivated state (a), and a position or/and size of the effective sensor range on the control unit being variable.

A manipulating device includes a base part, a user interface disposed above the base part and having a movable part and a grip part, a parallel link mechanism having a pair of arm parts and a pair of link parts, a position sensor configured to detect a position of a base-end part of the arm part, and a controller configured to control at least one of a position and a posture of a robot based on the position detected by the position sensor. The arm part is rotatably connected at a base-end part to the base part, the link part is rotatably connected at a base-end part to the arm part, and is rotatable connected at a tip-end part to the movable part, and the base part is coupled to the movable part through three sets of parallel link mechanisms with six degrees of freedom.

A surgical robotic system, comprising: a surgical robot; a user input device coupled to the surgical robot and manipulatable by a user to control operation of the surgical robot, the user input device comprising one or more sensors configured to collect data as the user manipulates the user input device; a processor unit configured to: analyse the collected data to determine whether a parameter associated with the operation by the user of the surgical robot has a desired working value; and generate an output signal indicating responsive action is to be taken in response to determining from the collected data that the parameter does not have a desired working value.

A first hand control controls an altitude of a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft; the movement of the VTOL aircraft within a plane defined by a roll axis and a pitch axis is independent of the first hand control. The first hand control is provided on a first hand side of a pilot's seat included in the VTOL aircraft. A second hand control controls the movement of the VTOL aircraft within the plane defined by the roll axis and the pitch axis; the altitude of the VTOL aircraft is independent of the second hand control. The second hand control is provided on a second hand side of the pilot's seat that is opposite from the first hand side.

An apparatus for facilitating bucket movement of a material handling machine includes a joystick biased to a neutral position, movable away from the neutral position in a first direction along an axis to a first position, and movable away from the neutral position in a second direction along the axis, opposite the first direction, to a second position. The apparatus further includes an operator input movable from a disengaged position to an engaged position in which a bucket of the material handling machine is configured to automatically move in an oscillatory motion. When the operator input is in the engaged position, an intensity of the oscillation is dependent upon a position of the joystick along the axis, decreasing along the axis from the first position to the second position.

A controller is capable of controlling an asset or target in physical and/or virtual three-dimensional space using a single hand by generating control inputs in four or more degrees of freedom while also limiting cross-coupling (unintended motions). The controller includes a first control member is configured to be gripped in a user's single, second control member is disposed on or near a top end of the first member movable with at least one degree of freedom independently of the movement of the first control member, and a third control member positioned on the first member for displacement by one or more digits of the user's single hand and coupled with the second member to move in opposition to movement of the second control member.

An adaptive joystick preferably includes a rotatable cylinder bar, an outer base ring, an inner ring and an industrial joystick base. An adaptive controller receives an output from the adaptive joystick and outputs a control signal to a valve solenoid to control a hydraulic cylinder. Angle, depth and pressure sensors are preferably used to monitor a position of the hydraulic cylinder. The sensor outputs are fed into the adaptive controller. An inward wrist curl of the rotatable cylinder bar combined with a forearm pull rearward of the outer base ring are used to cause a digging motion. An outward wrist curl of the rotatable cylinder bar combined with a forearm push forward of the outer base ring are used to cause a dumping motion. A hand movement to the left is associated with swinging the excavator left. A hand movement to the right is associated to swinging the excavator right.