Let's Use Haptics!

International Journal of Online Engineering

José Rodrigues¹  Manuel Rodrigues Quintas²  Pedro Ubaldo¹  Maria Teresa Restivo² 

[1] Faculty of Engineering, University of PortoFaculty of Engineering, University of PortoFaculty of Engineering, University of Porto;IDMEC-FEUP, Faculty of Engineering, University of PortoIDMEC-FEUP, Faculty of Engineering, University of PortoIDMEC-FEUP, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto

关键词: Haptic interfaces;    Sensors;    User interfaces;    Virtual reality;   

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学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: International Association of Online Engineering

【 摘 要 】

The concept and the use of haptic devices need to be disseminated and they should become familiar among young people. At present haptics are used in many everyday tasks in different fields. Additionally, their use in interaction with virtual reality applications simulating real systems sense of touch will increase the users? realism and immersion and, consequently, they will contribute to improve the intrinsic knowledge to the simulations? goals.However, haptics are associated with expensive equipment and usually they offer several degrees of freedom. The objective of this work is to make their cost not much more expensive than a ?special mouse by offering a low cost solution with just one degree of freedom (1DOF) useful in many simple cases.Additionally, it is also an objective of this work the development of simple virtual reality systems requiring interactions only requiring one degree of freedom. A low cost, single-axis force-feedback haptic device of 1 degree of freedom has been developed. For evaluating the interest of this prototype a ?Spring Constant application was built and used as a demonstrator. The complete system - the haptic interacting with the ?Spring Constant - will be described in the present work.

【 授权许可】

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