Fingertip Force Displaying Device Using Pneumatic Negative Pressure

Masahiro Takaiwa; Toshiro Noritsugu; Daisuke Sasaki; Takahiro Nogami

doi:10.20965/ijat.2014.p0208

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IJAT Vol.8 No.2 pp. 208-215

doi: 10.20965/ijat.2014.p0208

(2014)

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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

Received:

October 24, 2013

Accepted:

January 10, 2014

Published:

March 5, 2014

Keywords:

negative pressure, fingertip force display, pneumatic system, virtual reality, rehabilitation

Abstract

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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M. Takaiwa, T. Noritsugu, D. Sasaki, and T. Nogami, “Fingertip Force Displaying Device Using Pneumatic Negative Pressure,” Int. J. Automation Technol., Vol.8 No.2, pp. 208-215, 2014.

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[1] [1] K. Amemiya and Y. Tanaka, “Portable tactile feedback interface using air jet,” Proc. of the 9th int. conf. on artificial reality and telexistence, pp. 115-122, 1999.

[2] [2] N. Tanaka, M. Higashimori, M. Kaneko, and I. Kao, “Noncontact active sensing for viscoelastic parameters of tissue with coupling effect,” IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Eng., Vol.58, No.3, pp. 509-520, 2011.

[3] [3] C. Harrison and Hudson, “Providing Dynamically Changeable Physical Buttons on a Visual Display,” Proc. of the 27th Annual SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009.

[4] [4] M. Takaiwa and T. Noritsugu, “Development of pneumatic human interface and its compliance display,” J. of robotics and mechatronics, Vol.13, No.5, pp. 472-478, 2001.

[5] [5] M. Takaiwa and T. Noritsugu, “Position control of pneumatic parallel manipulator,” Int. J. of automation technology, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 49-55, 2008.

Fingertip Force Displaying Device Using Pneumatic Negative Pressure

Masahiro Takaiwa*, Toshiro Noritsugu**, Daisuke Sasaki*, and Takahiro Nogami*

Masahiro Takaiwa^*, Toshiro Noritsugu^**, Daisuke Sasaki^,
and Takahiro Nogami^