The hBracelet: A Wearable Haptic Device for the Distributed Mechanotactile Stimulation of the Upper Limb

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 2198-2205

  Meli, Leonardo ^a   Hussain, Irfan ^b   Aurilio, Mirko ^a   Malvezzi, Monica ^a   O'Malley, Marcia K ^c   Prattichizzo, Domenico ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c Rice University   (United States)

^d ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Haptics and haptic interfaces; human centered robotics; telerobotics and teleoperation; wearable robots

Indexed keywords

LINEAR ACTUATORS; MANIPULATORS; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); REMOTE CONTROL; ROBOTICS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

HAPTICS AND HAPTIC INTERFACES; HUMAN CENTERED ROBOTICS; MECHANICAL STRUCTURES; MECHATRONIC DEVICES; QUALITATIVE EXPERIMENTS; ROBOTIC MANIPULATORS; TELE-ROBOTICS; WEARABLE ROBOTS;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 85055020380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23773766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2018.2810958     Document Type: Article

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