The OpenHaptics™ toolkit: a library for adding 3D Touch™ navigation and haptics to graphics applications

Author

Itkowitz, Brandon ; Handley, Josh ; Zhu, Weihang

Author_Institution

SensAble Technol. Inc., USA

fYear

2005

fDate

18-20 March 2005

Firstpage

590

Lastpage

591

Abstract

The OpenHaptics™ toolkit is a haptics library developed by SensAble Technologies, Inc®. It is patterned after the OpenGL® API, making it familiar to graphics programmers and facilitating integration with existing OpenGL applications. OpenHaptics is composed of two layers: haptic device API (HDAPI) and haptic library API (HLAPI). HDAPI provides low-level access to the haptic device. HLAPI provides advanced haptic rendering capability. HDAPI and HLAPI are built on top of the PHANTOM® device drivers (PDD), the device drivers for PHANTOM series of haptic devices.

Keywords

application program interfaces; device drivers; haptic interfaces; rendering (computer graphics); three-dimensional displays; touch sensitive screens; 3D Touch navigation; HDAPI; HLAPI; OpenGL function; OpenHaptics toolkit; PHANTOM device driver; computer graphic; haptic device API; haptic library API; haptic rendering; haptics library; Graphics; Haptic interfaces; Imaging phantoms; Libraries; Navigation; Programming profession; Rendering (computer graphics); Servomechanisms; Shape; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Eurohaptics Conference, 2005 and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, 2005. World Haptics 2005. First Joint

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2310-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WHC.2005.133

Filename

1407021