Processed Control of haptic information on environmental surface by haptic scanner

Real-world haptics is the key technology for future haptic communication engineering. In this technical point of view, this paper proposes a ldquohaptic scannerrdquo for processing of haptic information. The experimental haptic scanner system is composed of two degree-of-freedom master-slave system. The haptic scanner acquires haptic information on the environmental surface; and the haptic information is analyzed by Fourier transformation and transmitted with shaping. As a result, it is possible to change the reproduced haptic sensation from the remote environment. The experimental results show the viability of the proposed method.