A Spherical Haptic Interface with Unlimited Workspace

Unlimited Workspace - Coupling a Mobile Haptic Interface with a Mobile Teleoperator

A teleoperation system extends cognitive and manipulatory skills of a human to a remote site. Hereby, the dimensions of the haptic interfaces and telemanipulators typically limit the achievable workspace. In some application scenarios, however, an unrestricted workspace is desirable. Therefore, we develop and discuss two different coupling schemes for a wide-area teleoperation system. The schem...

Haptic Interface for Center-of-Workspace Interaction

In our laboratory, we are involved in creating highly interactive 3D visualizations of various oceanographic data as well as investigating issues related to monitoring and control of remotely operated and autonomous undersea vehicles [1]. For these applications, it is sometimes necessary to examine features at the centimeter scale and to see these in the context of environments covering kilomet...

Admittance mode framework for haptic teleoperation of hovering vehicles with unlimited workspace

This paper discusses a new approach to haptic feedback for teleoperation of hovering vehicles. Traditionally airplane and helicopter controls use the displacement of a joystick as the main supervisory control input. It is common to overlay force feedback to convey additional information about forces occuring in the controlled craft. However, there are some fundamental problems when trying to fe...

Simulation of the Admittance Control Based Haptic Interface Device

Strings: A Haptic Interface

This paper presents my attempt to design an installation that investigates the bi-directional relation of affect we share with our environment. The focus is on the design of an innovative fabric prototype that presents a range of textural qualities to trigger bodily expressions, and which is also capable of perceiving such expressions itself in a tangible manner without the use of distant modes...