Design of a Multilevel Haptic Display

Abdelhamid Drif (1) , Benjamin Le Mercier (1) , Abderrahmane Kheddar (2)

1 IBISC - Informatique, Biologie Intégrative et Systèmes Complexes
2 IDH - Interactive Digital Humans

The present chapter describes the design and the realization of a haptic device dedicated to research prototyping of inclusive haptic rendering in bare hand encounter-type interaction. Our device aims at rendering surface profile haptics by means of a multi-stage display combining force and tactile feedback into a single device. The idea behind the multilevel architecture is to superpose actuators of different frequencies and bandwidths each of which is linked to a specific time-space frequency band of the surface profile. We discuss a number of constraints and difficulties that have been faced in an attempt to integrate combined force/tactile rendering in a single compact device with visual space co-localization.

Domaines: Automatique / Robotique

Abdelhamid Drif, Benjamin Le Mercier, Abderrahmane Kheddar. Design of a Multilevel Haptic Display. The Sense of Touch and its Rendering, 45, pp.207-224, 2008, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 978-3-540-79034-1. ⟨10.1007/978-3-540-79035-8_10⟩. ⟨lirmm-02155316⟩