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International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications

EuroHaptics 2014: Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications pp 141–149Cite as

Vibrotactile Stimuli for Distinction of Virtual Constraints and Environment Feedback

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In virtual reality and teleoperation scenarios, active constraints can be used to guide a user, prevent him from entering forbidden regions, and assist him in general. On a haptic interface, this implies superimposing the forces generated by the active constraints on top of the forces that are generated by the environment (real or virtual). This creates the problem of distinguishing from which of these two sources does a stimuli come from while perceiving feedback.

In this paper, we present an approach that consists in adding a vibrating component on top of the forces generated by the virtual constraints, while the forces generated by the environment are kept untouched. Blind experiments in which users have to navigate through a scenario containing both active constraints and randomly positioned objects show that they manage to perceive more successfully the presence of the unexpected objects with our approach than with previously existing ones. Moreover, the penetration into the constraints is as good as with the classical approach.

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Acknowledgements

This work has been supported by the European Commission with the Collaborative Project no. FP7-ICT-2009-6-270460, “ACTIVE: Active Constraints Technologies for Ill-defined or Volatile Environments”.

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  1. Department of Advanced Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, 16163, Genova, Italy

    Adrian Ramos & Domenico Prattichizzo

  2. Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena, Via Roma 56, 53100, Siena, Italy

    Adrian Ramos & Domenico Prattichizzo

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Ramos, A., Prattichizzo, D. (2014). Vibrotactile Stimuli for Distinction of Virtual Constraints and Environment Feedback. In: Auvray, M., Duriez, C. (eds) Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications. EuroHaptics 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8618. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44193-0_19

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