A study on unconstrained tactile-kinesthetic feedback

Abstract

This paper analyzes effect for vibration haptic feedback on haptic glove in virtual environment and telerobotics. When touching an object which has stiffness in slave part, a user must feel kinesthetic sense. Meanwhile, It is believed to replace kinesthetic feedback with tactile feedback for portable advantage. For that research, vibration motor attached to haptic glove was used for some experiment in virtual environment. The results, failure number, task completion time and displacement of the object, were analyzed in this experiment. Based on this research, it is believed that replacing kinesthetic sense with tactile sense is possible for simple system.