{"title":"A semi-direct drive hand exoskeleton using ultrasonic motor","authors":"Byungjune Choi, Hyouk Ryeol Choi","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900354","url":null,"abstract":"We address an exoskeletal type haptic device which helps the human actively feel the sense of touch in palmar and dorsal directions. The device consisting of two finger-like parts taken by thumb and index finger, is designed in modular type to expand easily for five fingers. The proposed device is semi-directly driven by ultrasonic motors which have high power-to-weight ratio, and it provides haptic feedback to each joint of fingers. Methods for measuring the angular displacements and torques of the fingers are proposed and basic experiments are performed to verify the effectiveness of the system.","PeriodicalId":200240,"journal":{"name":"8th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 (Cat. No.99TH8483)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123786181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A two degrees-of-freedom planar haptic interface with high kinematic isotropy","authors":"A. Frisoli, M. Prisco, F. Salsedo, M. Bergamasco","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900356","url":null,"abstract":"Presents the kinematic analysis and the mechanical design of a new tendon drive for a closed 5-bar linkage. This transmission system allows reaching of higher kinematic isotropy than the direct drive of base joints, over a large workspace with respect to the device bulk. The optimum mechanism geometry has been chosen from both kinematic and dynamic perspective. As a result a new two degrees-of-freedom planar haptic interface with high kinematic performance has been designed.","PeriodicalId":200240,"journal":{"name":"8th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 (Cat. No.99TH8483)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132222231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subjective evaluation for manoeuvrability of a robot cooperating with human","authors":"R. Ikeura, H. Inooka, K. Mizutani","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900340","url":null,"abstract":"Robots will be expected to be made human-friendly and to execute tasks in co-operation with humans. Control systems for such robots should be designed so as to work adapting to human characteristics. We have developed a control method for the robot carrying an object with a human smoothly. To make the controller of the robot, we investigate cooperation force characteristics of the two humans and develop a variable impedance control for a robot. In this paper the developed variable impedance control for a robot is evaluated subjectively. From the results of the subjective evaluation, the proposed variable impedance control was proved to be effective.","PeriodicalId":200240,"journal":{"name":"8th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 (Cat. No.99TH8483)","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133133160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simulation methodology about systems design","authors":"C. Halupka, P. Bisgambiglia, J. Santucci","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900365","url":null,"abstract":"We present a methodology for the design of physical or automatic machines. We expose how to build a model according to methodological concept to optimise and control in advance the structure and characteristics of a new machine. Our tools are mainly based on object oriented concept and discrete event methodology. Our work is based on an association between a structure component and the behaviour associated to this component. Hence it becomes easier to build or to study new machine design. Thanks to this methodology and to our hierarchies, we build a net of structure components which can be associated more or less easily to a behaviour. Then, the designed system proposes to the engineers the best results to actually build the system.","PeriodicalId":200240,"journal":{"name":"8th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 (Cat. No.99TH8483)","volume":"2011 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133242858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social character design for animated agents","authors":"Yugo Takeuchi, Yasuhiro Katagiri","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900313","url":null,"abstract":"In order for a computer agent to be accepted and function properly within a community of people, an appropriate social interaction scheme has to be established. We conducted an experiment to investigate the effect of sharing opinions with interface agents on subsequent human behaviors. In the first stage of the experiment, either a positive sharing (Agreeable agent), a negative sharing (Disagreeable agent) or no sharing (Neutral agent) of opinions was reinforced between subjects and agents through simple human-agent interactions. The effect of the sharing of opinions was then tested, in the second stage of the experiment, in terms of the subjects' tendency to favor or disfavour agents' proposals. We found that the Agreeable agent was consistently in favor of the subject's decisions. We therefore examined how the subject indicated sympathetic responses to the Agreeable agent after he/she interacted with all of the agents. The results show that people tend to behave favorably toward agents that previously agreed with their decisions. This suggests that human-computer interaction has the same social dynamics as human-human interaction.","PeriodicalId":200240,"journal":{"name":"8th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 (Cat. No.99TH8483)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132325944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research and development of a hand-held vision system for the visually impaired","authors":"D. Ikeya, J. Takeno","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900303","url":null,"abstract":"The authors have proposed an artificial vision system for the visually impaired that compensates for their sight disabilities and enables them to walk without danger as much as possible. This system consists of a stereo distance-measuring system PRPS (passive range pattern sensor), MPU, a signal amplifier, and a tactile pin display. The system acquires multiple points of distance information (up to 3.0 meters away), converts and displays the information via a wired connection using amplitude intensities corresponding to each point in the distance. The distance information acquired via 24 windows in the image obtained from the PRPS was output from a PC. Using firmware in the RAM of the MPU, rectangular waveforms corresponding to the 24 points of distance information obtained from the PC are generated and output to each terminal of the specified ports. The signals (rectangular waveforms) from the MPU are amplified and output to /spl plusmn/90V. Piezoceramics corresponding to each terminal of the output ports specified by the processor are vibrated by the electric potential difference in the amplified rectangular waveforms.","PeriodicalId":200240,"journal":{"name":"8th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 (Cat. No.99TH8483)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131091222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impedance control approach vs. adaptive nonlinear design in simulated push-button haptic interface","authors":"B. Allotta, V. Colla, G. Bioli, F. Conticelli","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900353","url":null,"abstract":"General purpose haptic interfaces are receiving increasing attention, because they can simulate different kinds of interaction between user and virtual objects/environments. The paper describes the control of a special-purpose haptic interface devoted to simulating the behavior of a push button, with the aim of performing user tests on different geometries and designs. The control task is to provide a reaction to the external solicitation as similar as possible to that of real buttons.","PeriodicalId":200240,"journal":{"name":"8th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 (Cat. No.99TH8483)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122366613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Request from robot to person in information sharing","authors":"Y. Wakita, S. Hirai, T. Suehiro","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900345","url":null,"abstract":"We proposed a projection function as a method of information sharing between a person and a coexistent robot. The projection function means that an image of the simulated robot motion is projected in the task environment for cooperation between the person and the robot. We categorize the information which should be shared by the robot and the coexisting person into 3 contents: 1) knowledge about the task environment; 2) intention of the robot and the person's motion in the task process; and 3) request from one to the other to cooperate to do the task. We introduce a request from the robot to the person as a new interaction mode for the coexistent robotic system.","PeriodicalId":200240,"journal":{"name":"8th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 (Cat. No.99TH8483)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128613947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design, control and evaluation of a six DOF force feedback interface for virtual reality applications","authors":"A. Benali, P. Richard, P. Bidaud","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900363","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a new six degrees of freedom haptic interface based on Stewart platform. The long-term objective of the system design is to give the possibility for a surgeon to practice endoscopic procedures repeatedly until perfect before performing it on a patient. The device has been integrated in a virtual reality (VR) simulation which allows the user to perform gestures and optimize endoscopic movements. The control law scheme is composed by two loops : (1) the inner loop dedicated for cartesian displacements control, and (2) the outer loop used to take into account contact occurred with the environment and to regulate the relationship between endoscope end-point position and environment's force reaction.","PeriodicalId":200240,"journal":{"name":"8th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 (Cat. No.99TH8483)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127670415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A robotic workstation for the Lerici natural science museum","authors":"B. Allotta, A. Geniola, V. Colla, E. Morreale","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900328","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the design and development of an entertainment robotic workstation installed at the natural science museum of Lerici, Italy. Two commercial 8-legged robots have been adopted and modified in order to fit the requirements of the specific application. The robots, which should mimic the behaviour of a trilobite, prehistoric animal typical of the Lerici zone, can work in both autonomous and teleoperated modes.","PeriodicalId":200240,"journal":{"name":"8th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction. RO-MAN '99 (Cat. No.99TH8483)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127866030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}