An intuitive optimization method of haptic rendering using interactive evolutionary computation

Author

Takekata, Kazuma ; Azmi, Muhammad Salzman Bin ; Nishino, Hiroaki ; Kagawa, Tsuneo ; Utsumiya, Kouichi

Author_Institution

Graduate Sch. of Eng., Oita Univ., Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

10-12 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

1896

Abstract

A method to easily explore an optimum set of haptic rendering parameters is proposed. In recent years, haptic technology has been developed. Users can touch 3D objects in virtual environments and is able to experience better communication and object exploration. Properly setting the haptic device parameters, however, is a tedious and non-intuitive task because it requires the users a technical knowledge and programming skills about the haptic device. Therefore, we applied the interactive evolutionary computation (IEC) to ease the haptic parameter optimization task. In this paper, we describe an implemented system and a preliminary experiment to assess the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Keywords

evolutionary computation; force feedback; haptic interfaces; optimisation; rendering (computer graphics); virtual reality; 3D object touching; force feedback; haptic device parameter; haptic parameter optimization task; haptic rendering; haptic technology; haptic texture; interactive evolutionary computation; object exploration; programming skill; soft computing; virtual environment; Evolutionary computation; Graphics; Haptic interfaces; Humans; Mathematical model; Optimization methods; Shape; Three dimensional displays; Virtual environment; Virtual reality; Soft computing; force feedback; haptic rendering; haptic texture; interactive evolutionary computation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9298-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2005.1571423

Filename

1571423