Remote measurement of surface compliance distribution for haptic broadcasting

Author

Fujiwara, Masahiro ; Nakatsuma, Kei ; Shinoda, Hiroyuki

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

13-18 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

1960

Lastpage

1965

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a remote measurement method of surface compliance distribution for haptic broadcasting. Our system consists of an ultrasound phased array and a laser displacement sensor. We built a system to examine the feasibility of this method. The surface compliance distribution comparable to the human skin was successfully measured. At last, we performed a preliminary experiment of displaying the obtained surface compliance distribution and a psychophysical experiment to confirm sufficiency of the compliance resolution.

Keywords

computerised instrumentation; haptic interfaces; measurement by laser beam; mechanical variables measurement; optical sensors; tactile sensors; telemetry; ultrasonic transducer arrays; haptic broadcasting; human skin; laser displacement sensor; psychophysical experiment; remote measurement method; surface compliance distribution; ultrasound phased array; Acoustic measurements; Arrays; Displacement measurement; Force; Haptic interfaces; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic variables measurement; Haptic broadcasting; Hardness evaluation; Remote tactile sensing; Tele-existence;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SICE Annual Conference (SICE), 2011 Proceedings of

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0714-8

Type

conf

Filename

6060289