• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.888-891
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• 2005

In this paper, the prototype of a walking guide robot with tactile display is introduced, and the psychophysical experiment of the tactile recognition for a tactile display is carried out and analyzed. The objective of this research is the development of a walking guide robot for the blind to walk safely. A walking guide robot consists of a guide vehicle and a tactile display device. A guide vehicle, located in the front of the walking blind, detects the obstacle using ultrasonic sensors and offers the information of position and walking direction acquired from GPS module to the walking blind by voice. The tactile display device, located in the handle which is connected with the guide vehicle by cane, offers the processed obstacle information such as position, size, moving, shape of obstacle and safe path, etc. The psychophysical experiments for the threshold of perception and recognition ability of tactile stimulation are carried out by the estimation of the subject group. As a result the appropriate tactile stimulus intensity and frequency to recognize tactile stimulation effectively are discussed and derived.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제48권2호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 시각장애인에게 점자 및 촉도(점자 그림)를 거의 실시간으로 촉각정보(촉각으로 인지할 수 있는 정보)로 변환하여 제공할 수 있는 햅틱 디스플레이 시스템을 제안한다. 제안한 시스템은 시각장애인에게 촉각정보를 전달하는 햅틱 디스플레이 장치와 점자 및 촉도 정보를 촉각신호로 변환하여 장치에 전달하는 장치 제어 소프트웨어 프로그램으로 구성된다. 제안한 시스템의 성능평가는 10인의 시각장애인들을 통해 진행하였다. 실험결과 제안한 시스템은 기존 점자정보단말기들과 유사한 점자 인지율 및 인지속도를 제공하였다. 또한 촉도 정보를 최대 1.1초 이내에 촉각정보로 변환하여 출력함으로써 기존 점자프린터에서는 불가능한 실시간 그래픽 정보 전달이 가능하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제9권8호
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• pp.592-599
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• 2003

As one of the Principal modalities of human sensation, tactile feel is prerequisite for building wide variety of applications such as telemanipulation, virtual reality and medical engineering. A dynamic Braille display device based on a polymer actuator is presented. The actuator, often called artificial muscle actuator has advantageous features over the existing methods in terms of intrinsic softness, ease of fabrication, cost-effectiveness and miniaturization. The principles of actuation with dielectric elastomer is introduced, and necessary considerations on the design of a tactile display device are discussed. The design of the device is described in detail including the fabrication process and driving electronics. Also, preliminary results of experiments are given to evaluate its performance.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.545-550
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• 2013

본 논문은 정전기력을 이용한 마찰력 변조를 이용하여 손끝을 통한 촉각정보의 입출력을 동시 구현하는 소자를 제안하였다. 기존의 촉각소자들이 촉각정보의 입력 및 출력을 개별적으로 구현한 것에 비해 본 연구는 손끝의 수직/수평 방향 동작 인식과 질감 구현을 동시에 구현하였다는 점에서 차별성을 가진다. 실험분석을 통해 검증한 손끝 동작 인식기능은 수직방향의 클릭의 경우 0.146nF/$40{\mu}m$, 수평방향의 경우 0.09nF/$750{\mu}m$의 정전용량 변화를 통해 인식 가능하였으며, 질감 구현의 경우 정전기적 인력을 통해 마찰력을 32~152mN의 범위에서 제어할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 교류전압을 이용한 수평적 진동은 60V, 3Hz에서 최대 128.1mN의 마찰력 변조를 구현하였으며, 이는 기존 연구 대비 32% 향상을 보여준다. 본 연구는 손끝에서 정보의 입출력을 동시 구현하여 정보기기의 촉각인터페이스에 적용 가능하다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.979-987
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• 2014

This paper describes new tactile feedback patterns and the effect of their input performance for a button GUI activated by a tap gesture on mobile touch devices. Based on an analysis of touch interaction and informal user tests, several tactile feedback patterns were designed. Using these patterns, three user experiments were performed to investigate appropriate tactile feedback patterns and their input performance during interaction with a touch button. The results showed that a tactile pattern responding to each touch and release gesture with a rapid response time and short falling time provides the feeling of physically clicking a button. The suggested tactile feedback pattern has a significantly positive effect on the number of typing errors and typing task completion time compared to the performance when no feedback is provided.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2016

In smart factories, the entire manufacturing process from design to the final product is simulated in a virtual manufacturing environment and optimized before starting production. Suppliers and customers make decisions based on the simulation results. Therefore, effective rendering of the information of the virtual products to suppliers and customers is essential for this manufacturing paradigm. In this study, a method of rendering the surface roughness of the virtual products using a tactile display is presented. A tactile display device comprising a $3{\times}3$ array of individually controlled piezoelectric stack actuators is constructed. The surface topology of the virtual products is rendered directly by controlling the piezoelectric stack actuators. A series of experiments is performed to evaluate the performance of the tactile display device. An electrical discharge machined surface is rendered using the proposed method.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.451-456
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• 2005

This paper describes three kinds of experiments and analysis of their results related to human tactile sensitivity using an integrated tactile display system. The device can provide vibration, normal pressure and lateral slip/stretch which are important physical quantities to sense texture. We have tried to find out the efficient method of stimulating, limitation of surface discrimination by kinesthetic farce feedback and the effectiveness of the combination of kinesthetic force and tactile feedback. Seven kinds of different stimulating methods were carried out and they are single or combination of the kinesthetic force, normal static pressure, vibration, active/passive shear and moving wave. Both prototype specimen and stimulus using tactile display were provided to all examinees and they were allowed to answer the most similar sample. The experimental results show that static pressure is proper stimulus for the display of micro shape of the surface and vibrating stimulus is more effective for the display of fine surface. And the sensitivities of active touch and passive touch are compared. Since kinesthetic force feedback is appropriate to display shape and stiffness of an object, but roughness display has a limitation of resolution, the concurrent providing methods of kinesthetic and tactile feedback are applied to simulate physical properties during touching an object.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1997년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; 한국전력공사 서울연수원; 17-18 Oct. 1997
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• pp.1285-1288
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• 1997

The basic technology of virtual reality can be described as the cognition of the condition change in virtual world by stimulating the visual, auditory, kinesthetic and tactile sensation. Among these, the kinesthetic and tactile sensation is one of the most important things to recognize the interaction. In this paper, it is addressed the haptic device which help the human feel the sense of the operator, and is designed in modular type to expand for five fingers later. the haptic device is driven by tendon and ultrasonic motors located in the wrist part. Each joint is actuated by coupled tendons and adopts more actrator by one than the number of the joints, called 'N+1 type'. The haptic device adopts metamorphic 4-bar linkage structure and the length of linkages, shape and the location of joint displacement sensor are optimized through the analysis.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.807-814
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• 2014

In this paper, we proposed a haptic navigation system which used the tactile data for the user guides of the mobile robot to the reference point via tele-operation in unknown blind environment. This navigation system can enable a mobile robot to avoid obstacles and move to the reference point, according to the direction provided by the device guides through a haptic device consisting of a vibration motor in a blind environment. There are a great deal of obstacles in real environments, and so mobile robots can avoid obstacles by recognizing the exact position of each obstacle through the superposition of an ultrasonic sensor. The navigation system determines the direction of obstacle avoidance through an avoidance algorithm that uses virtual impedance, and lets users know the position of obstacles and the direction of the avoidance through the haptic device consisting of 5 vibration motors. By letting users know intuitionally, it lets the mobile robot precisely reach the reference point in unknown blind environment. This haptic device can implement a haptic navigation system through the tactile sensor data.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제10권11호
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• pp.961-970
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• 2004

Tactile sensation is one of the most important sensory functions along with the auditory sensation for the visually impaired since it replaces the visual one of the persons with sight. In this paper, we present a tactile display device as a dynamic Braille display that is the unique tool f3r exchanging information among them. The tactile cell of the Braille display proposed is based on the dielectric elastomer, which is one of the electroactive polymers. It has advantageous features over the existing ones with respect to intrinsic softness, ease of fabrication, cost effectiveness and miniaturization. We introduce a new idea for actuation as well as additional considerations such as the driving circuit that makes it possible to drive multiple tactile cells in a high speed. Also, we describe the actuating mechanism of the Braille pin in details capable of realizing the enhanced spatial density of the tactile cells. Finally, results of psychophysical experiments are given to evaluate its effectiveness.