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Construction of a supermicro sense of force feedback and vision for micro-objects: development of a haptic device

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This research aims to develop a combined sense system that uses both the force feedback and visual feedback to establish the shape of microscopic features of a microsample. It is thought that the efficiency of minute procedures would be improved if the operator could obtain a sense of force while using a manipulator. We used a cantilever to touch a minute object and obtain a reaction force from the degree of bending. We made a haptic device which gives a sense of that force to the operator, who can feel the force when a user touches a sample with a cantilever. In addition, when the haptic device is used in simulations, the user can feel a force just as if the user had touched a sample.

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  1. Graduate School of Computer Science and System Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 680-4 Iizuka, Fukuoka, 820-8502, Japan

    Ryo Uehara & Eiji Hayashi

  2. Department of Mechanical Information Science and Technology, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 680-4 Iizuka, Fukuoka, 820-8502, Japan

    Eiji Hayashi

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Correspondence to Ryo Uehara.

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This work was presented in part at the 14th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Oita, Japan, February 5–7, 2009

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Uehara, R., Hayashi, E. Construction of a supermicro sense of force feedback and vision for micro-objects: development of a haptic device. Artif Life Robotics 14, 104–109 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-009-0637-6

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