Mixed Control of Multi-fingered Haptic Interface Robot with Operator’s Uneasy Feeling in Mind

Multi-Fingered Haptic Interface Robot and Its Application Systems

Haptic interfaces that represent force and tactile feeling have been utilized in the areas of telemanipulation, interaction with microscale and nanoscale phenomena, and medical training and evaluation, to mention only some applications. A multi-fingered haptic interface has greater potential for these kinds of applications than does a singlepoint haptic interface. We developed a five-fingered h...

Virtual Robot Teaching for Humanoid Both-Hands Robots Using Multi-Fingered Haptic Interface

Development of a Surgical Knife Device for a Multi-Fingered Haptic Interface Robot

This paper presents the design of a surgical knife device for a multi-fingered haptic interface robot called HIRO, and summarizes the experimental results. HIRO consists of a robot arm and a five-fingered hand, and is able to handle the tool with fingers. A variety of tools can be attached to HIRO, and the system is therefore able to present the force sensation of many tool-type devices. For ex...

High-Precision Three-Axis Force Sensor for Five-Fingered Haptic Interface

Haptic interfaces that present force and tactile feeling have been utilized in the areas of telemanipulation (Ivanisevi & Lumelsky, 2000; Elhajj et al., 2001), interaction with micro/nano scale phenomena (Ando et al., 2001; Marliere et al., 2004), medical training and evaluation (Langrana et al., 1994; Basdogan et al., 2001), and so on. Haptic interfaces are key devices in constructing virtual ...

Five Fingers Haptic Interface Robot HIRO : Design , Rendering , and Applications

Haptic interfaces are devices that allow human-machine interaction through force and touch. Combined haptic and visual interfaces have been around for decades. Yet, despite an enormous increase in research activity in the last few years, the science of haptics is still a technology in its infancy. The majority of commercially available haptic devices operate based on a principle of point intera...