Designing virtual reality systems: a case study of a system with human/robotic interaction

Author

Latham, R.

Author_Institution

Comput.. Graphics Syst. Dev. Corp., Mountain View, CA, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

23-26 Feb. 1997

Firstpage

302

Lastpage

307

Abstract

Issues related to the design of virtual reality systems are discussed in the context of the development effort for a virtual cockpit. Subsystems provide visual imagery, hand and head tracking, control logic and force feedback. The force feedback subsystem uses robotic positioning to place an assortment of knobs and switches into position to be touched: the user´s hand trajectory is extrapolated and the correct type of control is placed just in time to be actuated. Discussion focuses on selecting among alternative system elements and configurations in arriving at an overall systems design.

Keywords

aircraft computers; feedback; interactive devices; man-machine systems; robots; tracking; virtual reality; actuation; case study; control logic; force feedback; hand tracking; hand trajectory extrapolation; head tracking; human/robotic interaction; knobs; robotic positioning; subsystems; switches; system configurations; system elements; virtual cockpit; virtual reality systems design; visual imagery; Aircraft manufacture; Computational modeling; Computer aided software engineering; Computer displays; Force control; Human robot interaction; Image generation; Instruments; Switches; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Compcon '97. Proceedings, IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA, USA

ISSN

1063-6390

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7804-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPCON.1997.584738

Filename

584738