Full citation
Brouwer, I., MacLean, K. E., Hodgson, A.J. (2004). "Simulating Cheap Hardware: A Platform for Evaluating Cost-Performance Trade-Offs in Haptic Hardware Design." in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2004, vol. 1, April 26 - May 1 2004, pages 770-775.
Abstract
This paper describes a platform devised to explore the
impaet on task execution in a virtual environment of the quality,
and therefore cost of the system’s haptic hardware. This
platform is a complex haptic interface in whieh hardware quality can be varied in simulation. Software intercepts the position and
force signals between the haptic hardware and the virtual
environment software, and alters them to supply the effect of
increased friction, cogging, backlash, inertia andor lower force
output. Au parameters of the introduced effects can be set
independently or in combination and on a continuous scale; a primary contribution is the creation of haptically realistic effect
models that are stable in Combination on complex hardware.
This work is part of a larger project in which we will test the
effect of the simulated degradations on surgeons’ performanee in
simulated laparoscopic tasks.
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Year Published
2004

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