Spherical MR-Brake with Nintendo Wii Sensors for Haptics

This research improves the position measurement system of a magnetorheological (MR) spherical brake we recently designed. The brake is a multi-DOF actuator. The initial design had a position measurement system with infrared (IR) sensors. Although the IR sensors gave good results, there were some per...

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Published inHaptics: Generating and Perceiving Tangible Sensations pp. 160 - 165
Main Authors Senkal, Doruk, Gurocak, Hakan
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
force feedback
Haptics
inertial sensor
magnetorheological brake
multi-DOF actuator
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Summary:This research improves the position measurement system of a magnetorheological (MR) spherical brake we recently designed. The brake is a multi-DOF actuator. The initial design had a position measurement system with infrared (IR) sensors. Although the IR sensors gave good results, there were some performance degradations in the brake due to the noise in the sensors. In this research we implemented a new position measurement system using accelerometers and gyroscopes from a Nintendo Wii. Much better haptic feedback could be obtained in virtual wall collisions and in a virtual gear shifter simulation that used the brake as a joystick.
ISBN:9783642140747
3642140742
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-14075-4_23