Design of a novel finger haptic interface for contact and orientation display

Author

Solazzi, Massimiliano ; Frisoli, Antonio ; Bergamasco, Massimo

Author_Institution

PERCRO Lab., Scuola Superiore Sant´´ Anna, Pontedera, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

25-26 March 2010

Firstpage

129

Lastpage

132

Abstract

A new portable device for haptic interaction with virtual environments is presented. It is a lightweight interface for the fingertips, designed for providing cutaneous feedback and displaying the contact - non contact transition in highly immersive virtual environments. In this paper the kinematics, the mechanical design and the control system are described. The device has been mounted on a kinesthetic haptic interface which tracks its position: the overall system can provide both cutaneous and kinesthetic feedback. Finally the performance of the portable device in a simple task of shape exploration has been evaluated and compared to a kinesthetic haptic interface.

Keywords

feedback; haptic interfaces; cutaneous feedback; finger haptic interface; haptic interaction; kinesthetic feedback; kinesthetic haptic interface; orientation display; virtual environments; Displays; Fingers; Force feedback; Grasping; Haptic interfaces; Laboratories; Shape; Shearing; Stress; Virtual environment; Cutaneous feedback; Portable haptic interface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Haptics Symposium, 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Waltham, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6821-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6820-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444667

Filename

5444667