Development of a hand haptic interface and its basic experimental evaluation

Author

Kawasaki, Haruhisa ; Koide, Shinya ; Endo, Takahiro ; Mouri, Tetsuya

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Gifu Univ., Gifu, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

2-4 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents a concept for a hand haptic interface for use in a virtual reality environment and describes its basic experimental evaluation. The haptic interface consists of one-dimensional (1D) force display devices for each finger pad and the palm and a 3D fingertip haptic display device. The 1D force display devices are closed-loop controlled by the use of tactile sensors. The specifications of the 1D force display and experiment results at passive touch and active touch when subjects use the hand haptic interface in a virtual reality environment are presented.

Keywords

force control; haptic interfaces; tactile sensors; virtual reality; 1D force display device; 3D fingertip haptic display device; active touch; basic experimental evaluation; closed loop; finger pad; hand haptic interface; palm; tactile sensors; virtual reality environment; Force; Haptic interfaces; Humans; Joints; Three dimensional displays; Thumb; Force control; haptic interface; multi-finger hand; robot; virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (INISTA), 2012 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Trabzon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1446-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INISTA.2012.6246964

Filename

6246964