A tactile synthesis method using multiple frequency vibrations for representing virtual touch

2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 3965-3971

  Konyo, Masashi ^a   Yoshida, Akinori ^b   Tadokoro, Satoshi ^a   Saiwaki, Naoki ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pressure; Roughness; Tactile feel display; Texture

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; DISPLAY DEVICES; FRICTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); PRESSURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

FREQUENCY RANGES; MULTIPLE FREQUENCY; SELECTIVE STIMULATIONS; TACTILE FEEL DISPLAYS; TACTILE SENSATION; TACTILE SYNTHESIS; TEMPORAL CODING; TEMPORAL RESPONSE;

TEXTURES;

EID: 79958012945     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545130     Document Type: Conference Paper

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