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Haptic skills are essential for effective Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). Existing CPR training simulators provide unrealistic chest conditions. It is assumed that the CPR performance on a real human chest is the same even when the trainees have learnt on unrealistic dummy chests. To test this assumption we have developed an immersive Virtual Reality based CPR simulator in which force feedback...
In this paper we propose a new protocol based on Virtual Reality and a low-cost haptic device for evaluating motion performance during perturbed 3D reaching tasks. The protocol presented herein was designed to assess how different force amplitudes and different reaching directions influence motor performance of healthy subjects. We developed a novel gaming scenario using Unity 3D and the Novint Falcon,...
Recently there has been a remarkable increase in the use of technology in medical and dental education. Haptics technologies allow the operator to interact with the simulation environment using the sense of touch. In this paper we investigate three facets for realistic simulation with periodontists: (1) a custom grip is designed to attach dental instruments to the haptic interface in order to enhance...
Networked teleoperation with haptic feedback is a prime example for the emerging Tactile Internet, which requires a careful orchestration of haptic communication and control. One major challenge in this context is how to maximize the user's quality-of-experience (QoE) while ensuring at the same time the stability of the global control loop in the presence of communication delay. In this paper, we...
The development of telehaptic communication protocols has gained widespread focus over the past decade. Several protocols have been proposed for carrying out telehaptic activities over a shared network. However, a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the network crosstraffic on the telehaptic stream, and the feasibility of Quality of Service (QoS) compliance, is lacking in the literature. In this...
The emerging 5G networks will enable control-oriented applications where sensors, actuators, processors and controllers are geographically distributed and wirelessly connected. One major challenge of networked control systems (NCSs) is how to guarantee the stability of all control loops in the presence of communication delay. Addressing this problem, the control community generally focuses on designing...
Given the wide skill gap prevalent in the developing nations today, providing vocational education to the unskilled promises to improve the quality of life of people. Vocational skills are practical competencies and the necessary underpinning knowledge that helps a person acquire gainful employment in the labor market. This paper focuses on a surface mount hand soldering technique which is a vocational...
Wireless sensor networks enable versatile applications with different types of sensors. Multi-modal data fusion from heterogeneous sensors to achieve better inference and perception for the physical world. Many factors enable sensor data fusion a challenge task, among which nodes deployment is one of the fundamental issues. This paper investigates the problem of seeking optimal deployment scheme for...
Recently, the IEEE P1918.1 standardization activity has been initiated for defining a framework for the Tactile Internet. Within this activity, IEEE P1918.1.1 is a task group for the standardization of Haptic Codecs for the Tactile Internet. Primary goal of the task group is to define/develop codecs for both closed-loop (kinesthetic information exchange) and open-loop (tactile information exchange)...
A 3D visible articulation system which utilizes audio-visual data to accurately simulate the 3D articulatory motion is developed in this paper. The 3D articulatory shapes are reconstructed from Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI). In order to synthesize accurate audio-visual results, articulatory parametric models are further developed and the Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA) data with synchronized...
One common means of identifying materials is by touch and the sound produced from the material. However, the sound produced by striking the surface of various materials is different. Materials of different thickness produce different sounds when struck and this is a good method to identify the material. The frequency at which the sound produced from various materials also differs from one material...
The realization of the Tactile Internet paradigm enables haptics on new multimedia applications, products, and services. The Haptic-based multimedia application allows users to naturally interact with the physical and virtual worlds by using several bidirectional and parallel artificial modalities. One common concern about a haptic-based application is fatigue. Undesirable muscular fatigue degrades...
Infrared thermography has been widely used today for nondestructive evaluation and testing of materials and other qualitative approaches. However, the field of thermography is much less developed. Most of the existing research uses a relatively simple model, while more realistic models are currently in development. One interesting scenario for thermography is determining the material composition of...
Plenty of existed tactile displays in the literature had limited application due to their small effective contact area of end-effector or touched surface. In this paper, a tactile display with large-effective contact area for texture perception was proposed. It could create texture sensation within an active area of 194mm × 100mm based on squeeze film effect. Furthermore, this tactile display was...
The haptic illusion based force feedback, known as pseudo-haptics, is used to simulate haptic explorations, such as stiffness, without using a force feedback device. There are many computer mouse based pseudo-haptics work reported in the literature. However, none has explored the mechanics of the pseudohaptics. The objective of this paper is to derive an analytical relation between the displacement...
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