Observations on and modifications to the Rutgers Master to support a mixture of passive haptics and active force feedback

Proceedings - 11th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, HAPTICS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 430-437

  Borst, C W ^a   Volz, R A ^b  

^a University of Louisiana at Lafayette   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Application software; Computer science; Control systems; Displays; Force control; Force feedback; Haptic interfaces; Software systems; Virtual environment; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISPLAY DEVICES; FORCE CONTROL; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); REMOTE CONTROL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACTIVE COMPONENTS; FORCE FEEDBACK; HAPTIC FEEDBACKS; MIXED APPROACH; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SPATIAL ACCURACY; USER INTERACTION; VIRTUAL CONTROL;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 77954276679     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HAPTIC.2003.1191335     Document Type: Conference Paper

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