Implementing Compact Tactile Display for Fingertips with Multiple Vibrotactile Actuator and Thermoelectric Module

Author

Yang, Tae-Heon ; Yang, Gi-Hun ; Kwon, Dong-Soo ; Kang, Sung-Chul

Author_Institution

Human-Robot Interaction Res. Center, Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon

fYear

2007

fDate

22-24 March 2007

Firstpage

580

Lastpage

581

Abstract

In this paper, a compact tactile display which consists of multiple vibrotactile actuators with 4-different vibrotactile unbalanced mass and a peltier thermoelectric module is proposed. By stimulating 2 different sensory modalities including mechano-receptors and thermo-receptor simultaneously, surface texture and material composition can be displayed using the implemented device. With this implementing concept, the developed device can be used to display surface texture and temperature together, and it has the possibility of implementing a small-size, multi-fingered tactile display device

Keywords

actuators; display devices; haptic interfaces; sensors; surface texture; thermoelectric devices; display surface texture; fingertip compact tactile display; material composition; mechano-receptors; multifingered tactile display device; multiple vibrotactile actuator; multiple vibrotactile actuators; peltier thermoelectric module; sensory modalities; temperature; thermo-receptors; vibrotactile unbalanced mass; Cooling; Displays; Force feedback; Frequency; Haptic interfaces; Intelligent actuators; Surface texture; Temperature sensors; Thermoelectricity; Vibrations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

EuroHaptics Conference, 2007 and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems. World Haptics 2007. Second Joint

Conference_Location

Tsukaba

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2738-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WHC.2007.72

Filename

4145246