2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Super-Reality Tele-Interaction Using Haptic Environments
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11792024
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for University and Society Collaboration
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
情報システム学(含情報図書館学)
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| Research Institution | Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
HORIGUCHI Susumu School of Information Science, JAIST, Professor, 情報科学研究科, 教授 (60143012)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HAYASHI Ryouko School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Associate Researcher, 情報科学研究科, 助手 (30303332)
INOGUCHI Yasushi Center of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Associate Researcher, 情報科学センター, 助手 (90293406)
ABE Touru School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Associate Professor, 情報科学研究科, 助教授 (80222652)
AOKI Yusuke Intec W&G Inc., Researcher, 研究員
YONEZAWA Yuji Industrial research Institute of Ishikawa, researcher, 製品科学部, 研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2001
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| Keywords | Virtual Reality / Tele-Interaction / Haptic Emvironment / Traditional Handcraft / 3D Plastic Arts / Co-Operation Plastic Arts |
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| Research Abstract |
The virtual reality (VR) becomes an active area of research as tele-interaction in recent years due to the advanced progress in broadband network. Virtual environment (Haptics) system with force feedback and the sense of tough allows users feeling of manipulating virtual objects. Thus, haptic research can potentially benefit a wide range of virtual reality application as in medical simulation, training, telemanipulation and applications for handicapped and blind community.
This research addresses the Super-Tele-Interaction system architecture of multi-user remote communication in, virtual environment to make 3D objects in shared virtual environments. Users can experience touching and manipulating virtual objects, but also feel their haptics such as weight, surface smoothness, and compliance. Super-Tele-Interaction system consisting of haptic virtual reality and telecommunication is closely related to the network-based shared virtual environment (SVE) and can achieve multiple virtual worlds connected by the network to share information with one another. JAIST research group has developed and e implemented the network-based SVE to design 3D objects by multi users. INTEC research group has developed the haptic painting system in VR for traditional applied fine arts. IRII research group implemented the 3D-object design system in VR using pressure sensor array. We have also implemented VR robotics system for tele-interaction though the internet and proposed the haptics control system between network-robots and VR-robots. These research results are basic technology to realize the collaborative shared haptic virtual environment and super-reality tele-interaction system.
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