Haptic Interface Controller Design using Intelligent Techniques

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Design of Cylindrical Whole-Hand Haptic Interface Using Electrocutaneous Display

Precise manual work is frequently required in remote and virtual environments. Cutaneous feedback to the whole hand is a key element in achieving this goal; however, most haptic I/O systems for the hand only present haptic sensations to the tips of the fingers. I propose to use an electrocutaneous display to construct a whole-hand cutaneous feedback system. The display shape is cylindrical, to ...

Using Film Cutting Techniques in Interface Design

It has been suggested that computer interfaces could be made more usable if their designers utilized cinematography techniques, which have evolved to guide the viewer through a narrative despite frequent discontinuities in the presented scene (i.e., cuts between shots). Because of differences between the domains of film and interface design, it is not straightforward to understand how such tech...

A design method of a haptic interface controller considering transparency and robust stability

In this paper, a transparency-optimized feedback controller with robustness is designed for multi-axis haptic device, where a disturbance observer is employed to decouple the coupling e ect existing in multiaxis haptic device. A performance index for the transparency is de ned in a viewpoint of admittance matching, and the optimal solution minimizing the performance index is obtained by solving...

The vBow: A Haptic Musical Controller Human-Computer Interface

The vBow senses the violinist's bow stroke through the encoder of a servo driven by a cable, which is wrapped around a capstan attached to the shaft of the motor, and secured to either end of the virtual bow. The servo engages the bow, simulating friction and vibration of the string on the bow, according to the velocity of the performer's stroke. The result is a musical controller capable of si...