Development of a Slim Haptic Glove Using McKibben Artificial Muscles

Author

Moon, Kyung-Won ; Ryu, Dongseok ; Chun, Changmook ; Lee, Yongkwon ; Kang, Sungchul ; Park, Mignon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Yonsei Univ., Seoul

fYear

2006

Firstpage

204

Lastpage

208

Abstract

In this paper, a light-weight and wearable haptic glove system is introduced which is designed for virtual environments. In order to reduce the weight of the system, micro McKibben artificial muscles are used and 2-port solenoid valve pneumatic system was developed for faster response. Hydraulic system was also developed to actuate artificial muscles, so that we can overcome softness and inaccuracy of pneumatic system due to the compressibility of air. We verify the functionality and usefulness of the proposed system by synchronizing it with a virtual environment

Keywords

data gloves; hydraulic systems; pneumatic actuators; pneumatic systems; virtual reality; 2-port solenoid valve pneumatic system; McKibben artificial muscles; hydraulic system; slim haptic glove system; virtual environment; Fingers; Force control; Force sensors; Haptic interfaces; Lighting control; Muscles; Pneumatic systems; Sensor systems; Valves; Virtual environment; McKibben Artificial muscle; Slim Haptic glove; Virtual Environment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SICE-ICASE, 2006. International Joint Conference

Conference_Location

Busan

Print_ISBN

89-950038-4-7

Electronic_ISBN

89-950038-5-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SICE.2006.315608

Filename

4108825