HUMAN-SCALE ASSEMBLY SIMULATOR WITH HAPTIC INTERACTIONS

Accession number;07A0187208
Title;HUMAN-SCALE ASSEMBLY SIMULATOR WITH HAPTIC INTERACTIONS
Author; HASHIMOTO NAOKI (Tokyo Inst. Technol., Yokohama, Jpn) KIMURA KOICHIRO (Tokyo Inst. Technol., Yokohama, Jpn) IIO YUICHIRO (Tokyo Inst. Technol., Yokohama, Jpn) SATO MAKOTO (Tokyo Inst. Technol., Yokohama, Jpn)
Journal Title;IEIC Technical Report (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers)
Journal Code:S0532B
ISSN:0913-5685
VOL.106;NO.448(IE2006 138-184);PAGE.187-190(2007)
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Pub. Country;Japan
Language;English
Abstract;Recently, immersive projection displays, which surround users with high-resolution images, can achieve human-scale virtual environments for visualization, industry, amusement, education, medical attention, and so on. Although, in such displays, users can feel as if they were actually in those virtual environments, they have a substantial need for realistic interaction with virtual objects. Especially in some industrial applications, haptic sensation is quite important for precise simulation of assembly tasks with virtual objects. In this research, we propose a human-scale assembly simulator with the immersive projection displays and haptic interactions. In order to achieve human-scale haptic interaction, we developed a string-based 6DOF & both-hand haptic interface which can be used with the immersive projection displays. It can assist assembly tasks of virtual objects effectively and efficiently in virtual workspaces. We describe the details of the proposed system and evaluate its performance. (author abst.)