Study on the representation of fingertip slip using various vibrations and surface textures

Recently, haptic and remote technologies have progressed significantly with increase of calculation and communication performance of computers and network such as the Internet. These techniques enable to transmit and represent action and reaction forces to another site. And it also makes to possible integrate the tactile information with reaction force to realize further augmented reality technique. In this study, it is aims that the construction of integration method for tactile and force representation in remote control environment. In order to achieve the integration, prototype of tactile presentation systems to presents a slip feeling between the fingertip and virtual object has constructed. The effectiveness of prototype system and represent point on fingertip has been confirmed through the experiments with subject people.