Hit Me Baby One More Time: A Haptic Rating Interface

Simulation of the Admittance Control Based Haptic Interface Device

Computer Vision-Based Interface for the Control of Meta-Instruments

This paper describes a “virtual keyboard” for the control of metainstruments. The proposed approach uses video input data and computer vision algorithms for tracking feet motion and their interaction with a planar keyboard with no force feedback. The design of the “virtual keyboard” is directly inspired from the traditional, organ-style bank of foot pedals. The proposed approach accurately dete...

A Haptic Thermal Interface: towards Effective Multimodal User Interface Systems

Despite powerful sensory inputs (e.g., tactile and force feedback), haptic interface systems are still in an early stage of development for accomplishment of a high degree of realism. One of the key elements missing is the ability to present thermal information, such as the thermal conductivity and temperature of an object being manipulated. This real time information is one of the obstacles to...

Ganesh Sankaranarayanan

Undoubtedly, these are exciting times for the field of Haptics, clearly seen by the number of scholarly articles published in both journals and conference proceedings in the past few years; a figure that is still on the rise and which showcases the exploding growth of this field. Haptics is an interdisciplinary research field that encompasses and appertains to psychologists, and robotics and co...

Design of a Multi-finger Haptic Interface

In this paper the design of a multi-finger force-reflecting haptic interface device for teleoperational grasping is introduced. The haptic interface or “master” controller device is worn on the human operator’s hand and measured human finger positions are used to control the finger positions of a remote grasping manipulator or “slave” device. The slave may be a physical robotic grasping manipul...