Distributed PC-based haptic, visual and acoustic telepresence system-experiments in virtual and remote environments

Author

Baier, H. ; Buss, M. ; Freyberger, F. ; Hoogen, J. ; Kammermeier, P. ; Schmidt, G.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Autom. Control Eng., Tech. Univ. Munchen, Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

13-17 Mar 1999

Firstpage

118

Lastpage

125

Abstract

We present a distributed PC-based multimodal (haptic, visual and acoustic) telepresence and virtual presence system. Two desktop kinesthetic devices (DeKiFeD3 and DeKiTop3) with 3 degrees-of-freedom have been developed for multi-modal telepresence. Feedback to the human modalities of the visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile and temperature senses is generated using appropriate actuator hardware. We present several applications in virtual presence and teleoperation in physical remote environments

Keywords

acoustic transducers; feedback; force control; haptic interfaces; local area networks; microcomputer applications; tactile sensors; temperature sensors; virtual reality; DeKiFeD3; DeKiTop3; acoustic telepresence; desktop kinesthetic devices; distributed PC-based multimodal telepresence system; haptic telepresence; human modalities; remote environments; teleoperation; virtual environments; virtual presence; visual telepresence; Acoustic devices; Actuators; Communication networks; Feedback; Force sensors; Haptic interfaces; Humans; Space technology; Temperature sensors; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual Reality, 1999. Proceedings., IEEE

Conference_Location

Houston, TX

ISSN

1087-8270

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0093-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VR.1999.756942

Filename

756942