Brittany Redmond, R. Aina, Tejaswi Gorti, B. Hannaford
{"title":"Haptic characteristics of some activities of daily living","authors":"Brittany Redmond, R. Aina, Tejaswi Gorti, B. Hannaford","doi":"10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444674","url":null,"abstract":"Activities of daily living (ADLs) are of interest in rehabilitation, independent living for the elderly and infirm, and to the designers of everyday objects. This paper reports measurements of forces and torques at the interaction point between users and some everyday objects in ADLs. We report force and torque recordings of several writing tasks with pen and pencil, opening and closing a jar, and dialing and texting with a cell phone. Besides average measurements, we measured some statistically significant differences between some very similar activities. For example, RMS forces in writing tasks were lower with pencil than ball-point pen, dialing a number showed lower forces than texting, and texting forces differed between “ABC” and “T9” texting methods.","PeriodicalId":239293,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Haptics Symposium","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123441149","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}
Maciej Pietrusinski, Iahn Cajigas, Yuhannes Mizikacioglu, Mary Goldsmith, P. Bonato, C. Mavroidis
{"title":"Gait Rehabilitation therapy using robot generated force fields applied at the pelvis","authors":"Maciej Pietrusinski, Iahn Cajigas, Yuhannes Mizikacioglu, Mary Goldsmith, P. Bonato, C. Mavroidis","doi":"10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444624","url":null,"abstract":"The Robotic Gait Rehabilitation (RGR) Trainer was designed and built to target secondary gait deviations in patients post - stroke. While patients ambulate on a treadmill, force fields are applied to the pelvis, which generate corrective forces as a response to deviations from normal pelvic motion. The device is coupled to the patient via an orthopedic brace, and a linear electromagnetic actuator provides power. Healthy human subject testing confirmed efficacy of the method to impart significant gait restoration forces as a response to abnormal pelvic obliquity (hip hiking). This novel approach to application of force fields using endpoint impedance controlled linear actuators takes into account patients' soft tissue dynamics.","PeriodicalId":239293,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Haptics Symposium","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125005894","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 vibrotactile feedback approach to posture guidance","authors":"Y. Zheng, John B. Morrell","doi":"10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444633","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we explore the use of vibrotactile haptic feedback to improve performance of a sensory-motor task. Our specific application is seated posture guidance. Poor sitting postures, over time, can lead to health concerns such as low back pain. We propose a real-time haptic feedback system that actively senses and guides a person to a desired posture. We have instrumented an ergonomic office chair with a simple system using 7 force-sensitive resistors (FSRs) for posture detection and 6 vibrotactile actuators (“tactors”) for haptic feedback. When the chair detects that the subject is not sitting in the desired posture, one or more tactors will vibrate, directing the subject towards or away from a certain position. In a pilot study of 10 subjects (age 23.9±1.45, weight 71.1±13.6kg, height 175±11.2cm), 100% sat in the reference posture (upright) more often when there was haptic feedback than when there was not. Additionally, when haptic feedback was temporarily disabled without the subject's knowledge, all of the subjects continued to sit in upright or near-upright postures. These findings suggest that vibrotactile feedback can be an effective means of communicating musculoskeletal commands to the human sensory-motor system, especially for motor training and rehabilitation.","PeriodicalId":239293,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Haptics Symposium","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127579164","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 basic study on tactile displays using velvet hand illusion","authors":"Yuji Kawabe, A. Chami, M. Ohka, T. Miyaoka","doi":"10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444671","url":null,"abstract":"To enhance artificial tactile sensation generated by a tactile display, we focus on the velvet hand illusion (VHI), in which a person rubs his/her hands together on either side of wires strung through a frame, producing the sensation of rubbing a very smooth and soft surface like velvet. To determine the specifications of an actuator for a tactile display enhanced by VHI, we investigate the relationship between wire distance and intensity of illusionary sensation using a series of psychophysical experiments. According to the experimental results, the strength of VHI depends on the distance between two adjacent wires and saturates at around 55 mm. In VHI, although the area bounded by two wires moves relative to the hands, tangential force does not occur on either hand, causing operators to experience the illusion of touching a smooth virtual film with a zero coefficient of friction. Since the strength of VHI becomes small for a small distance between two adjacent wires, excessive tangential stimulation prevents the occurrence of VHI. Therefore, VHI control requires two actuations: one is for normal actuation on the operator's finger surface to generate a touch feeling; the other is appropriate tangential actuation to generate a moving-edge feeling on the operator's finger surface.","PeriodicalId":239293,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Haptics Symposium","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121675589","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":"Skin nonlinearities and their effect on user perception for rotational skin stretch","authors":"P. Shull, Karlin Bark, M. Cutkosky","doi":"10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444675","url":null,"abstract":"Given that skin is a nonlinear, anisotropic and viscoelastic material, we are interested in exploring the relationship between skin mechanical properties and skin stretch perception, for the case of rotational displacements applied to the skin on a user's limbs. Studies were conducted with 10 naive subjects first to characterize the nonlinear stiffness of the skin with respect to applied rotations and subsequently to characterize the skin viscoelastic response and hysteresis. Despite substantial subject-to-subject variability, when results are normalized by each subject's maximum torque, the torque/displacement results are fairly consistent across subjects, at low and high speeds, and can be fit with a third order polynomial. For roughly one half of the subjects, a similar nonlinearity is discernible in the perceived versus actual rotation; other subjects produced nearly linear results across the range of positive and negative rotations. Viscoelastic and hysteresis effects in the skin were also evident. However, while subjects can clearly distinguish between slow and rapid movements, the speed of the applied motion does not significantly affect their perception of rotation.","PeriodicalId":239293,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Haptics Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115972922","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 of a novel finger haptic interface for contact and orientation display","authors":"M. Solazzi, A. Frisoli, M. Bergamasco","doi":"10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444667","url":null,"abstract":"A new portable device for haptic interaction with virtual environments is presented. It is a lightweight interface for the fingertips, designed for providing cutaneous feedback and displaying the contact - non contact transition in highly immersive virtual environments. In this paper the kinematics, the mechanical design and the control system are described. The device has been mounted on a kinesthetic haptic interface which tracks its position: the overall system can provide both cutaneous and kinesthetic feedback. Finally the performance of the portable device in a simple task of shape exploration has been evaluated and compared to a kinesthetic haptic interface.","PeriodicalId":239293,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Haptics Symposium","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131623534","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":"Fiber-optic intubation simulator with force feedback","authors":"Ankur R. Baheti, Y. Millo, J. Desai","doi":"10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444629","url":null,"abstract":"The existing simulators for fiber-optic intubation procedure provide haptic feedback to the user when there is contact with the vocal-cord section, but they do not capture the grazing effect of the endoscope along the inner walls of the airway. The grazing on the inner walls of the airway, if not well controlled, could lead to unnecessary trauma for the patient. Hence, there is a need to provide this force feedback in a fiber-optic intubation simulator. We have built a force feedback device that incorporates both the force feedback when contact is made with the vocal-cord section as well as grazing of the endoscope along the inner walls of the airway. We use a PD controller to obtain force feedback at the vocal-cord section and a variable magnetic field to replicate the frictional force feedback caused by the grazing of the endoscope along the inner walls of the airway. The movements of the endoscope are captured using rotary encoders (which read the insertion and the tip bend) and a magnetometer (which reads the twist angle of the endoscope along the long axis). We performed tests based on the intensity of contact of the endoscope against the vocal-cords and the inner walls of the airway. Changes in the intensity of grazing at the inner walls of the airway were observed by actively varying the coil current in the magnet. The simulator will help to train all aspects of fiber-optic intubation which involves contact with the vocal-cords as well as grazing the surface of the airway.","PeriodicalId":239293,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Haptics Symposium","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123751216","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":"Interaction control for a brake actuated manipulator","authors":"B. Dellon, Y. Matsuoka","doi":"10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444651","url":null,"abstract":"If a passively actuated physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) device could produce the transparency and controllability of an active device, the safety standard of pHRI could dramatically improve. This is critical since pHRI devices are being developed for rehabilitation or assistance where the user may not be able to provide full strength or speed to counteract accidental movements caused by a motor driven robot. This paper demonstrates effective friction compensation and an interaction controller that increases overall transparency of a passively actuated pHRI device, the Brake Actuated Manipulator (BAM). We analyze the friction compensator's stability with passivity theory, and evaluate the proposed interaction control scheme on the BAM with real time experiments during display of virtual environments composed of non-linear Coulomb or viscous friction. Results show excellent force tracking performance during display, and indicate that passively actuated pHRI devices can be transparent despite notions that brakes are poor actuators.","PeriodicalId":239293,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Haptics Symposium","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126769381","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":"Perceptual thresholds for single vs. Multi-Finger Haptic interaction","authors":"H. King, R. Donlin, B. Hannaford","doi":"10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444670","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents experiments measuring psychophysical thresholds for multi-finger single point interaction with small haptic effects. Subjects used the UW Multi-Finger Haptic Display to interact with small haptic icons in a virtual environment. A forced-choice adaptive thresholding method is used to find a minimum detectable force magnitude. First, studies are performed to evaluate the consistency of our test apparatus across the four fingertips and to compare our application of the adaptive thresholding method to the prior work. Next, force detection thresholds for individual fingers are collected and compared to the force detection threshold using four fingers simultaneously. The results show comparable force detection levels between index, middle, pinkie and multi-finger interaction (33.5, 32.1, 33.5, 28.9 mN respectively) but less sensitivity with the ring finger (mean threshold of 43.6 mN). Repeated measures analysis of variance and t-tests with Bonferroni correction supports these conclusions. Most importantly, we show that the multi-finger threshold is not significantly lower than the threshold of the individual fingers. The implication for device design is that the relevant multi-finger device parameters are no more stringent than for single finger devices.","PeriodicalId":239293,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Haptics Symposium","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114496441","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}
Ye Ding, Mark L. Sivak, B. Weinberg, C. Mavroidis, M. Holden
{"title":"NUVABAT: Northeastern university virtual ankle and balance trainer","authors":"Ye Ding, Mark L. Sivak, B. Weinberg, C. Mavroidis, M. Holden","doi":"10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HAPTIC.2010.5444608","url":null,"abstract":"The ability to control the ankle muscles and produce adequate range of motion in the ankle joints are key components of gait and balance function. Patients who suffer from neurological impairments, such as stroke or traumatic brain injury, frequently lose gait and balance function due in part to loss of ankle control. Described in this paper is a unique two degree of freedom (DOF) mechatronic device with a virtual reality interface that has been developed to meet the needs of such patients for ankle and balance rehabilitation. The Northeastern University Virtual Ankle and Balance Trainer (NUVABAT) rehabilitation system has five components: i) a patient-actuated device; ii) control software; iii) a practitioner graphical interface; iv) virtual reality software; and v) training software. The system can be used for measurement of ankle kinematics and balance function as well as for retraining motor control of the ankle, and can be used in either a sitting or standing position to accommodate early and late phases of rehabilitation training. We report here the details of the various design features and initial testing of the device.","PeriodicalId":239293,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Haptics Symposium","volume":"331 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122840483","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}