An Analysis of Perceptual Instability During Haptic Texture Rendering

  • Authors:
  • Seungmoon Choi;Hong Z. Tan

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • HAPTICS '02 Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper investigates the problem of perceived instability during haptic texture rendering. We focus on the perceptual analysis of the stability of textured surfaces rendered with a force-reflecting device. The method of limits is used to assess the detection thresholds for perceived instability in terms of the stiffness of the virtual textured surfaces. We varied texture rendering method, exploration mode, and the amplitude and spatial wavelength of a sinusoidal surface texture model. Our results show that the maximum stiffness value for perceptually stable texture rendering is quite small (