Design and Modeling of an Electro-rheological Fluid Based Haptic Interface

Electro-Rheological Fluidic Actuators for Haptic Vehicular Instrument Controls

Force-feedback mechanisms have been designed to simplify and enhance the human-vehicle interface. The increase in secondary controls within vehicle cockpits has created a desire for a simpler, more efficient humanvehicle interface. By consolidating various controls into a single, haptic feedback control device, information can be transmitted to the operator, without requiring the driver’s visua...

Optimal Design of Magnetorheological Fluid Damper Based on Response Surface Method

In this research, the effect of shape parameters such as number of magnet wire turns, spools, thickness of the gap, and pole length in a Magneto-rheological (MR) fluid damper is analytically investigated and the optimization of these parameters is done with response surface method (RSM) which is combined Neuro-Fuzzy method and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm. Since the electro-magne...

Simulation of the Admittance Control Based Haptic Interface Device

Specifications and Prototype of Rheological Device

In the task 4.3 we investigated on the possibility of realizing haptic display to mimic haptic sensations by using ‘new’ technologies such as smart materials. In the previous D4.6 we preliminarily investigated on rheological properties of some controllable fluids and we explored the possibility of implementing haptic interfaces by using Magneto-Rheological Fluids (MRFs). Unlike kinaesthetic dis...

Analysis and Design of a New Haptic Box Display Based on Magneto-Rheological Fluids

In this paper we describe a design of an innovative immersive Haptic Black Box (HBB) based on Magneto Rheological Fluids (MRF). By exploiting results from an accurate analysis performed on a previously operating haptic display a new device capable of exciting the MRF with improved performance in terms of magnetic field intensity and spatial resolution has been developed. Due to the core structu...