A Method of Presenting Haptic Information for Dynamic Touch Using Superficial Moment of Inertia

Tomozumi IKEDA  Hideo MATSUDA  Tomoki NAKAMURA  Yasuhito SHIOTA  Kazuyoshi SAKAMOTO  Yutaka SHIMIZU 

Publication
D - Abstracts of IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems (Japanese Edition)  Vol.J89-D  No.6  pp.1403-1412
Publication Date: 2006/06/01
Online ISSN: 1881-0225
Print ISSN: 1880-4535
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
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Keyword: 
dynamic touch,  haptic illusion,  gyroscope,  haptic force generator,  superficial moment of inertia, 

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Summary: 
This paper shows a method of presenting haptic information for dynamic touch using superficial moment of inertia. It is shown theoretically that the haptic force generator using a gyroscope can change superficially the moment of inertia of a rod. An experimental device for haptic illusion consists of the haptic force generator and sensors for detecting rod-wielding. The effectiveness of the device were confirmed by some experiments, and as the result, the subjects were easily able to discriminate the change of a superficial moment of inertia provided by the device. A good agreement of analytical and experimental results shows proposed method is effective as method of presenting haptic information for dynamic touch.