Toward Whole-Hand Kinesthetic Feedback: A Survey of Force Feedback Gloves

Wang, Dangxiao; Song, Meng; Afzal, Naqash; Zheng, Yan; Wang, Xu; Zhang, Yuru

doi:10.1109/toh.2018.2879812

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“…Based on actuation type, we can classify them into electrical motors, pneumatic or hydraulic actuators, novel actuators using functional materials etc. Readers may refer to existing survey about force feedback gloves [49] or wearable haptic devices [50] .…”

Section: Wearable Haptic Devicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In order to provide more realistic haptic sensations, more research prototypes of force feedback gloves have been developed [49,50] . Figure 27a shows a lightweight glove using pneumatic-driven rigid actuators and an underactuated mechanism with a single transmission link, which effectively reduces the weight of the glove while maintaining the sufficient workspace [62] .…”

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Haptic display for virtual reality: progress and challenges

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Guo

Liu

et al. 2019

Virtual Reality & Intelligent Hardware

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Immersion, interaction, and imagination are three features of virtual reality (VR). Existing VR systems possess fairly realistic visual and auditory feedbacks, and however, are poor with haptic feedback, by means of which human can perceive the physical world via abundant haptic properties. Haptic display is an interface aiming to enable bilateral signal communications between human and computer, and thus to greatly enhance the immersion and interaction of VR systems. This paper surveys the paradigm shift of haptic display occurred in the past 30 years, which is classified into three stages, including desktop haptics, surface haptics, and wearable haptics. The driving forces, key technologies and typical applications in each stage are critically reviewed. Toward the future high-fidelity VR interaction, research challenges are highlighted concerning handheld haptic device, multimodal haptic device, and high fidelity haptic rendering. In the end, the importance of understanding human haptic perception for designing effective haptic devices is addressed. IntroductionIn 1965, Ivan Sutherland proposed the concept "the ultimate display", which represents the birth of virtual reality (VR) [1] . In his seminal work, he introduced three features of VR: immersion, interaction, and imagination. In past 50 years, thanks to the research in computer graphics and sound synthesis, existing VR systems possess fairly realistic visual and auditory feedback. However, haptic feedback is far from user's perceptual expectations. The experiences of haptic sensation in most VR systems are rather poor compared to the abundant haptic properties that human can perceive in the physical world.Haptic feedback is indispensable for enhancing immersion, interaction, and imagination of VR systems.Interaction can be enhanced by haptic feedback as users can directly manipulate virtual objects, and obtain ·Review· Dangxiao WANG et al: Haptic display for virtual reality: progress and challenges immediate haptic feedback. Immersion of the VR system can be enhanced in terms of providing more realistic sensation to mimic the physical interaction process. Imagination of users can be inspired when haptics can provide more cues for user to mentally construct an imagined virtual world beyond spatial and/ or temporal limitations.The haptic sensation obtained through virtual interaction is severely poor compared to the sensation obtained through physical interaction. In our physical life, the haptic channel is pervasively used, such as perception of stiffness, roughness and temperature of the objects in external world, or manipulation of these objects and motion or force control tasks such as grasping, touching or walking etc. In contrary, in virtual world, haptic experiences are fairly poor in both quantity and quality. Most commercial VR games and movies only provide visual and auditory feedbacks, and a few of them provide simple haptic feedback such as vibrations. With the booming of VR in many areas such as medical simulation and product design, there is a...

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Section: Wearable Haptic Devicementioning

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Haptic display for virtual reality: progress and challenges

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Liu

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Virtual Reality & Intelligent Hardware

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“…It has been designed for applications in virtual and augmented reality. A review of the literature on lightweight exoskeletons for the hand can be found in [1], [12]. Indeed, providing both cutaneous and kinesthetic feedback has often showed better performance than providing either cutaneous or kinesthetic feedback alone.…”

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A Modular Wearable Finger Interface for Cutaneous and Kinesthetic Interaction: Control and Evaluation

Chinello

Malvezzi

Prattichizzo

et al. 2020

IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.

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A modular wearable finger interface for cutaneous and kinesthetic interaction: control and evaluation.Abstract-We present a novel modular wearable interface for haptic interaction and robotic teleoperation. It is composed of a 3-DoF fingertip cutaneous device and a 1-DoF finger kinesthetic exoskeleton, which can be either used together as a single device or separately as two different devices. The 3-DoF fingertip device is composed of a static body and a mobile platform. The mobile platform is capable of making and breaking contact with the finger pulp and re-angle to replicate contacts with arbitrarily oriented surfaces. The 1-DoF finger exoskeleton provides kinesthetic force to the proximal and distal interphalangeal finger articulations using one servo motor grounded on the proximal phalanx. This paper presents the wearable device as well as three different position, force, and compliance control schemes, together with their evaluations. We also present three human subjects experiments, enrolling a total of 40 different participants: the first experiment considered a curvature discrimination task, the second one a robotassisted palpation task, and the third one an immersive experience in Virtual Reality. Results showed that providing cutaneous and kinesthetic feedback through our device significantly improved the performance of all the considered tasks. Moreover, although cutaneous-only feedback showed promising performance, adding kinesthetic feedback improved most metrics. Finally, subjects ranked our device as highly wearable, comfortable, and effective.

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“…A promising approach in evolving from grounded haptic interfaces to more wearable and portable designs has been to move the grounded part of the haptic interface from an external support onto the body of the human user. Such body-grounded haptic interfaces have been called exoskeletons and they have been very successful in the past [2], [14]. However, although exoskeletons do show an increased wearability and portability with respect to grounded solutions, they have one significant limitation.…”

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“…Wearable and hand-held haptic devices are increasingly present in teleoperation, gaming, rehabilitation, VR, AR, and many other application domains [1], [2]. This growing popularity is supported by an increasing number of research and studies aimed to define methods, principles, and guidelines for the design of wearable and hand-held interfaces [1], [2], [4]- [6]. However, the definition of what is a wearable or hand-held device is not always as intuitive and straightforward as it may seem.…”

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