Thermal Radiation Based Haptic Display

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26540095
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Human interface and interaction
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: Saga Satoshi 筑波大学, システム情報系, 准教授 (10451535)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 触覚ディスプレイ / 熱放射

Outline of Final Research Achievements

When a human places his hands over a source of heat, his hands become worm owing to thermal radiation. In this research, we employ spatially controlled thermal radiation to display a virtual shape. At a temperature near the nociceptive temperature, a person will tend to avoid a heated region. Using this space, our proposed system displays the virtual shape-like region.
Using the prototype system, we held experiments and revealed that the spatially-controlled thermal radiation realized spatially fixed sensation of "softness" or "plane."
In addition, we proposed a calibration method of the system with the computer vision technologies, and realized a precise alignment.

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