Sensory substitution and augmentation of forces and torques using tactile skin deformation feedback
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Haptic devices aim to render a realistic sense of touch using kinesthetic and tactile feedback. Kinesthetic feedback provides forces and torques that affect the motion of the user's hand or arm. Tactile feedback stimulates cutaneous receptors in the user's skin. Currently, most commercial haptic devices aim to provide kinesthetic feedback. Although kinesthetic feedback can convey multiple degree-of-freedom information intuitively to the user, this type of feedback can potentially be destabilizing. In contrast, tactile feedback can be used to create the perception of forces and torques without physically imparting these forces and torques to the user, and is not destabilizing. However, conveying multi-degree-of-freedom force and torque information via the tactile channel, in a manner that is intuitive to a human user, can be challenging. This thesis focuses on the design, development, and experimental validation of a class of tactile feedback devices that provide feedback using local fingerpad skin deformation. Fingerpad skin deformation occurs in our daily interaction with objects, feels natural, and can intuitively express many degrees-of-freedom. Skin deformation tactile feedback can provide force and torque information through skin deformation cues on multiple fingers in a manner that is consistent with our interaction with external objects. This thesis describes several novel skin deformation feedback devices and shows in human participant studies that skin deformation feedback influences perception of stiffness. Skin deformation feedback can be used in conjunction with force feedback to improve the perception of stiffness of virtual surfaces, and can also be employed for sensory substitution and augmentation of force and/or torque information during manipulation of objects in virtual environment or teleoperation scenarios. When skin deformation feedback was used as a form of sensory substitution to convey force/torque information, study participants improved task performance compared to when no feedback was given. When skin deformation feedback was used to augment kinesthetic feedback to provide additional force/torque information, subject participants showed improvements in task performance compared to only kinesthetic feedback. The results of this thesis show that skin deformation tactile feedback is intuitive, and can be used to convey force and torque information to substitute, or augment, kinesthetic feedback. Skin deformation tactile feedback is potentially useful in scenarios where the provision of kinesthetic force and/or torque feedback is difficult, notably in teleoperated robot-assisted surgery, space and underwater teleoperation, where kinesthetic feedback may cause system instability.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Quek, Zhan Fan |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Mechanical Engineering. |
| Primary advisor | Cutkosky, Mark R |
| Primary advisor | Okamura, Allison |
| Thesis advisor | Cutkosky, Mark R |
| Thesis advisor | Okamura, Allison |
| Thesis advisor | Khatib, Oussama |
| Thesis advisor | Provancher, William |
| Advisor | Khatib, Oussama |
| Advisor | Provancher, William |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Zhan Fan Quek. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Zhan Fan Quek
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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