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Passive shared virtual environment for haptic cooperation

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For distributed haptic cooperation systems, this paper develops a framework for virtual environments such that the design of the coordinating controllers is decoupled from the network topology and the communication issues. A passive paradigm is introduced for shared virtual object (SVO) with n distributed copies on communications with unreliable data transmission. The n-port passivity of the SVO system is proved and followed by the steady-state analysis. Three-user haptic cooperation experiments validate the theoretical findings.

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Rakhsha, R., Constantinescu, D. & Shi, Y. Passive shared virtual environment for haptic cooperation. Auton Robot 43, 1489–1504 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-018-9809-3

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