Improvement of Vibration Sensitivity by Tangential Vibration

Hie-yong Jeong; Mitsuru Higashimori; Makoto Kaneko

doi:10.20965/jrm.2009.p0554

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JRM Vol.21 No.4 pp. 554-562

doi: 10.20965/jrm.2009.p0554

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Improvement of Vibration Sensitivity by Tangential Vibration

Hie-yong Jeong, Mitsuru Higashimori, and Makoto Kaneko

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
2-1 Yamadagaoka, Suita 565-0871, Japan

Received:

October 17, 2008

Accepted:

June 1, 2009

Published:

August 20, 2009

Keywords:

vibration sensitivity, tangential vibration, transmission of vibration, haptic device

Abstract

A vibration sensitivity is usually defined by the minimum amplitude when a subject perceives the vibration with ω₁ which is the frequency of perpendicular direction on the skin surface. In this work, we are interested in how the vibration sensitivity at ω₁ is changed under the condition adding the tangential vibration with ω₂ which is the frequency of tangential direction on the skin surface. Through all experiments, we found that the vibration sensitivity at ω₁ = 8, 10, and 25 Hz is improved approximately 30% with the p-value of below 0.1% by an adequate setting condition of ω₂ = 3 Hz.

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H. Jeong, M. Higashimori, and M. Kaneko, “Improvement of Vibration Sensitivity by Tangential Vibration,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.21 No.4, pp. 554-562, 2009.

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