A haptic virtual environment for industrial training

Author

Hosseini, Mojtaba ; Malric, Francois ; Georganas, Nicolas D.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

30

Abstract

This paper presents a haptic virtual environment application for industrial training. A choice of haptic devices. (PHANTOM and CyberForce/CyberGrasp) is used to perform a training exercise with the possibility of sharing virtual scene states with remote users to allow collaboration and remote observation. Furthermore, the application employs video textured avatars to improve face-to-face communication, a novel area of interest management mechanism to reduce network bandwidth usage, standard encoding of state updates for compatibility and is used in conjunction with various projection technologies such as a head mounted display, CAVE configuration or regular PC monitor. The paper serves to underline the various components needed for the development of a haptic virtual environment and our experiences in doing so.

Keywords

computer based training; groupware; haptic interfaces; virtual reality; CAVE configuration; CyberForce; CyberGrasp; PC monitor; PHANTOM; collaboration; face-to-face communication; haptic devices; haptic virtual environment; head mounted display; industrial training; network bandwidth usage; projection technologies; remote observation; remote users; state update encoding; video textured avatars; virtual scene state sharing; Avatars; Collaboration; Haptic interfaces; Imaging phantoms; Industrial training; Layout; Management training; Project management; Video sharing; Virtual environment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Haptic Virtual Environments and Their Applications, IEEE International Workshop 2002 HAVE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7635-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HAVE.2002.1106909

Filename

1106909