Paper:
Fingertip Force Displaying Device Using Pneumatic Negative Pressure
Masahiro Takaiwa*, Toshiro Noritsugu**, Daisuke Sasaki*,
and Takahiro Nogami*
*Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushimanaka, Kitaku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
**Tsuyama National College of Technology, 624-1 Numa, Tsuyama 700-8509, Japan
In this study, a fingertip force display device that uses negative pressure is developed. The device can control the resisting force against a finger’s motion by regulating the negative pressure in an air chamber processed in the device. Information about the position of a finger is obtained with a Web camera using AR-Toolkit library, and the resisting force is controlled based on the fingertip position (velocity), which shows the capability of the VR-oriented application and mechanical impedance task. The effectiveness of the proposed system is verified through experiments.
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