A High-Level Haptic Interface for Enhanced Interaction within VirtoolsTM

Authors:
Matthieu Poyade;Arcadio Reyes-Lecuona;Simo-Pekka Leino;Sauli Kiviranta;Raquel Viciana-Abad;Salla Lind
Affiliations:
Departamento de Tecnología Electrónica, ETSI de Telecomunicación, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain 29071;Departamento de Tecnología Electrónica, ETSI de Telecomunicación, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain 29071;Human-Machine Systems, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Tampere, Finland FIN-33101;Human-Machine Systems, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Tampere, Finland FIN-33101;Departamento de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación, Escuela Politécnica Superior de Linares, Linares, Spain 23700;Human-Machine Systems, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Tampere, Finland FIN-33101
Venue:
VMR '09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Virtual and Mixed Reality: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Haptics is the outstanding technology to provide tri-dimensional interaction within Virtual Environments (VE). Nevertheless, many software solutions are not fully prepared to support Haptics. This paper presents a user-friendly implementation of Sensable Phantom haptic interfaces onto the interactive VE authoring platform, Virtools 4.0. Haptics implementation was realized using the Haptic Library (HLAPI) from OpenHaptics toolkit 2.0 which provides highly satisfactory custom forces effects. The integration of Phantom interaction at end-user development fulfils logical VE interactive authoring under Virtools. Haptics implementation was qualitatively assessed in a manual maintenance case, a welding task, as a part of the national Finnish project, VIRVO. Manipulation enhancements provided by the integration of Phantom interaction in Virtools suggest many further improvements for more complicated industrial pilot experiments as a part of the European Commission funded project ManuVAR.