2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Development of virtual reality suit displaying force by functional gel sheets
| Project/Area Number |
24650057
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Media informatics/Database
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| Research Institution | Toyama Prefectural University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
ANZAI Hidenobu 藤倉化成株式会社, 研究開発部
SAKURAI Koji 藤倉化成株式会社, 研究開発部
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | バーチャルリアリティ / 先端機能デバイス / 知能機械 / 力覚提示 / 機能性材料 |
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| Research Abstract |
We applied a one of functional materials, ER gel, to flexible film circuits, which can be equipped on winding surfaces. The ER gel sheets were introduced to a suit, thus a virtual reality suit which can display a force directly to a body was developed. When an electric field is applied to the ER gel, the adhesional force on the surface of the ER gel, thereby the sear stress of the surface of the gel increases. At the VR suit, a resistant force to bar the motion of the body is generated. In this research, a quantitative evaluation using an experimental equipment modeled one arm and electromyogram evaluation equipped to human were conducted.
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