TY - GEN
T1 - Tactile actuators using SMA micro-wires and the generation of texture sensation from images
AU - Takeda, Yuto
AU - Sawada, Hideyuki
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Humans communicate with each other by using not only verbal media but also the five senses such as vision, audition, olfaction and tactile sensations. Various devices and systems have been introduced for supporting human communication, and most of them are based on visual and auditory media. For presenting tactile sensations, some tactile actuators have been introduced recently, however these actuators require real objects to generate the various tactile sensations and input data to be associated with output tactile sensations should be prepared manually by a user. This study introduces an algorithm to automatically generate parameters from an object's image for driving tactile actuators. A tactile presentation system is constructed, and the validity of the texture sensations is verified by a user's experiment.
AB - Humans communicate with each other by using not only verbal media but also the five senses such as vision, audition, olfaction and tactile sensations. Various devices and systems have been introduced for supporting human communication, and most of them are based on visual and auditory media. For presenting tactile sensations, some tactile actuators have been introduced recently, however these actuators require real objects to generate the various tactile sensations and input data to be associated with output tactile sensations should be prepared manually by a user. This study introduces an algorithm to automatically generate parameters from an object's image for driving tactile actuators. A tactile presentation system is constructed, and the validity of the texture sensations is verified by a user's experiment.
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U2 - 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696625
DO - 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696625
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893738070
SN - 9781467363587
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
SP - 2017
EP - 2022
BT - IROS 2013
T2 - 2013 26th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems: New Horizon, IROS 2013
Y2 - 3 November 2013 through 8 November 2013
ER -