A Haptic Interface for Automobile Gearshift Design and Benchmark

A Haptic Gearshift Interface for Cars

This paper presents a two degrees–of–freedom haptic interface that uses force control to reproduce the behavior of a customary lever and gearshift in automotive applications. The haptic simulation of the gear selector lever has been done by the appropriated design of virtual artificial potential functions. These functions contain parameters that have intuitive physical meaning and that can be e...

Simulation of the Admittance Control Based Haptic Interface Device

A two-port framework for the design of unconditionally stable haptic interfaces

A haptic interface is a kinesthetic link between a human operator and a virtual environment. This paper addresses stability and performance issues associated with haptic interaction. It generalizes and extends the concept of a virtual coupling network, an artificial connection between a haptic display and a virtual world, to include both the impedance and admittance models of haptic interaction...

Simulation of a Manual Gearshift with a 2 DOF Force-feedback Joystick

A 2 dof force-feedback joystick was employed to simulate the force response of a manual gearshift of car during drive. The control law is based on an hybrid model. A state machine determines the active state of the system, according to the simulation, and changes the parameters of the dynamical model. The operator can move the gearshift lever whether such a movement would be allowed in an actua...

Stable haptic interaction with virtual environments

A haptic interface is a kinesthetic link between a human operator and a virtual environment. This paper addresses fundamental stability and performance issues associated with haptic interaction. It generalizes and extends the concept of a virtual coupling network, an artificial link between the haptic display and a virtual world, to include both the impedance and admittance models of haptic int...