Vibrotactile haptic feedback for intuitive control of robotic extra fingers

IEEE World Haptics Conference, WHC 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 394-399

  Hussain, Irfan ^a   Meli, Leonardo ^a,b   Pacchierotti, Claudio ^a,b   Salvietti, Gionata ^b   Prattichizzo, Domenico ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAPTIC INTERFACES; ROBOTIC ARMS; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

CUTANEOUS SENSATION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; HAPTIC FEEDBACK SYSTEMS; INTUITIVE CONTROLS; SENSING COMPONENTS; VIBRO-TACTILE FEEDBACKS; VIBRO-TACTILE INTERFACES;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84947080916     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WHC.2015.7177744     Document Type: Conference Paper

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