SeminarOnHaptic Technology

Contents

• Introduction• Definition• How it works?• Working of Phantom• Haptic devices• Applications• Advantages & Disadvantages• Conclusion

Introduction

• Interfaces the user with a virtual environment via the sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations, and/or motions to the user.

• mechanical stimulation.

Definition

• Haptic technology, is a tactile feedback technology that takes advantage of a user’s sense of touch by applying forces, vibration and motions to the user.

• Haptics: “being able to come into contact with”

sense of touch

How it works?

PHANTOM

Other Haptic devices• Cyber glove:

• Specialized mouse: A multi agent system observes the user and helps in predicting the next move on the mouse.

Applications• Surgical Simulation and Medical Training:

remote surgery, with the central workstation and performs in various locations.

• Graphical user interfaces:

Advantages

• Easy to Access And Use.

• Conservation: Prototype not required during development, to check the accuracy and to touch the model.

Disadvantages

• Limited magnitude and not equally well in all directions: Algorithms ensure that component don’t saturate.

• Implementation is expensive.

• Haptics applications can be extremely complex, requiring highly specialized hardware.

Conclusion

• Solution for interacting with the virtual environment.

• Acts as an input and output device, tracking user physical manipulations as an input and providing realistic touch sensations as an output coordinated with onscreen events.