The Haptic Interaction with Virtual Robot

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Literature Review: The Haptic interaction with virtual robot Abstract— In this paper; there will be a presentation of the concept of Haptic interaction and what those words means, in order to be able to understand the aim of the project and what kind of task I will have to do. Then, there will be an explanation divided in different parts which will be focus on domains where this concept of haptic interaction is used. The parts will talk about the haptic interaction for rehabilitation and personal enhancement via training and finally for knowledge and experience transfer. Obviously, those explanations will always be related to my case studied during my thesis. At the end, there will be a conclusion in order to summary and make the point on what is done in our days with this concept and what I can bring. This literature review will be relevant to help me to progress for my project of thesis which its title is: “Haptic interaction with virtual robot”. Index Terms— Haptic interaction, robot, feedback, sense of touch, virtual reality, personal enhancement, rehabilitation, haptic interface, exoskeleton. INTRODUCTION F IRST of all, it is important to understand the words which are “haptic interaction” and the concept. “Haptic” comes from the Greek and means “I touch”. It is the concept of having to do with the sense of touch, and also means the perception of the body in an environment. The word “interaction” defines the mutual action which can exist between two entities. My project is the creation of a haptic interaction between a user’s hand and the hand of a virtual robot. In order to realize this interaction, I would have at my disposal a Falcon 3D joystick controlled by the user, and a virtual representation of the ICub robot on a simulator (Tikhanoff V. et al., 2008). In this context, the haptic interaction has to be realized between a
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