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HAPTICS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Simplified Authoring of 3D Haptic Content for the World Wide Web
As haptic technology becomes more developed, the potential applications for three-dimensional haptic content online become more and more numerous. However, the proliferation of su...
Marcia Kilchenman O'Malley, Shannon Hughes
HAPTICS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Passive and Active Assistance for Human Performance of a Simulated Underactuated Dynamic Task
Machine-mediated training of dynamic task completion is typically implemented with passive intervention via virtual fixtures or active assist by means of record and replay strateg...
Marcia Kilchenman O'Malley, Abhishek Gupta
HAPTICS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
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 f...
J. Melli-Huber, Brian Weinberg, Avi Fisch, Jason N...
HAPTICS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Performance and Co-Presence in Heterogeneous Haptic Collaboration
Based on a distributed architecture for real-time collection and broadcast of haptic information to multiple participants, heterogeneous haptic devices (the PHANToM and the CyberG...
Margaret McLaughlin, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Wei Peng,...
HAPTICS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Path-Following Control for Dissipative Passive Haptic Displays
This paper addresses the problem of following an arbitrary path with a dissipative passive haptic display. Such a display has energetically passive actuators; all motive energy mu...
Davin K. Swanson, Wayne J. Book
HAPTICS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Controller Design for a Wearable, Near-Field Haptic Display
In this paper, we address the problem of providing near-field haptic feedback in a wearable, scalable manner. Our solution, called the TactaBoard, supports the independent control...
Robert W. Lindeman, Justin R. Cutler
HAPTICS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Toward Robust Passivity: A Passive Control Implementation Structure for Mechanical Teleoperators
In previous papers, a passive control implementation structure is proposed for mechanical systems interacting with physical environments. The proposed implementation structure enf...
Dongjun Lee, Perry Y. Li
HAPTICS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
The Role of Multisensory Feedback in Haptic Surface Perception
In performing most everyday tasks, we use information from several different sensory modalities, yet our understanding of how these inputs are integrated is limited. The present s...
Gayla L. Poling, Janet M. Weisenberger, Thomas Ker...
HAPTICS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
The Haptic Probe: Mechanized Haptic Exploration and Automated Modeling
It seems likely that humans build internal models of objects that they explore haptically, and that the complexity of an internal model is not necessarily associated with complex ...
Volkan Patoglu, R. Brent Gillespie
HAPTICS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
How Well Can We Encode Spatial Layout from Sparse Kinesthetic Contact?
We investigated people’s ability to report the shape and scale of a spatial layout after sparse contact, without vision. We propose that the initial representation of sparsely c...
Roberta L. Klatzky, Susan J. Lederman