Exploring Dynamic Haptic Cues in Vehicle Teleoperation

This paper briefly describes a system that captures the accelerations of a vehicle, and displays this information haptically to a remote user controlling that vehicle. The motivations for this system are that the haptic cues relating to the vehicle’s experiences have the potential to provide the user with improved control over the vehicle, to more firmly place the user within the environment that it is encountering. This system is designed to support vehicular teleoperation. We then move on to discuss the possible mappings that can be applied to transform the raw data captured from the vehicle into information that is meaningful to the user controlling that vehicle. Finally, we speculate on other mappings and sensor inputs that may provide a user with useful haptic information in a vehicular teleoperation task.