Haptic interface development using a hardware-in-the-loop experimental setup

Author

Necsulescu, Dan ; Basic, Goran

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Univ. of Ottawa, Ont., Canada

fYear

2003

fDate

27-29 July 2003

Firstpage

190

Lastpage

193

Abstract

The interaction between the human operator and a virtual environment can be significantly enhanced by a haptic interface. The implementation of a haptic interface requires to account for the dynamics characteristics of the interface components. In this paper, haptic interface development and testing are analyzed using hardware-in-the-loop experimental setups. Two setups are presented, 1DOF and 3DOF. The paper presents issues regarding HIL implementation of haptic interfaces using a nonlinear force feedback from a virtual environment. The results are relevant for the characterization of the performance and the limits of the haptic interface implementations.

Keywords

force feedback; haptic interfaces; man-machine systems; object-oriented programming; user interface management systems; virtual reality; 1DOF setup; 3DOF setup; HIL implementation; HIL simulation; computer system; dynamics characteristics; haptic interface; hardware-in-the-loop experimental setup; human operator; interface component; nonlinear force feedback; performance characterization; virtual environment; Auditory displays; Computational modeling; Computer interfaces; Computer simulation; Computerized monitoring; Force feedback; Haptic interfaces; Hardware; Humans; Virtual environment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, 2003. VECIMS '03. 2003 IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7785-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VECIMS.2003.1227053

Filename

1227053