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Physical Variables Underlying Tactile Stickiness during Fingerpad Detachment
Posted on April 16, 2020 Leave a Comment
One may notice a relatively wide range of tactile sensations even when touching the same hard, flat surface in similar ways. Little is known about the reasons for this variability, so we decided to investigate how the perceptual intensity of light stickiness relates to the physical interaction between the skin and the surface. We conducted […]
Tactile Roughness Perception of Virtual Gratings by Electrovibration
Posted on March 17, 2020 Leave a Comment
Realistic display of tactile textures on touch screens is a big step forward for haptic technology to reach a wide range of consumers utilizing electronic devices on a daily basis. Since the texture topography cannot be rendered explicitly by electrovibration on touch screens, it is important to understand how we perceive the virtual textures displayed […]
Fingertip Interaction Metrics Correlate with Visual and Haptic Perception of Real Surfaces
Posted on June 15, 2019 Leave a Comment
Both vision and touch contribute to the perception of real surfaces. Although there have been many studies on the individual contributions of each sense, it is still unclear how each modality’s information is processed and integrated. To fill this gap, we investigated the similarity of visual and haptic perceptual spaces, as well as how well […]
Effect of Remote Masking on Tactile Perception of Electrovibration
Posted on June 2, 2019 Leave a Comment
Masking has been used to study human perception of tactile stimuli, including those created on haptic touch screens. Earlier studies have investigated the effect of in-site masking on tactile perception of electrovibration. In this study, we investigated whether it is possible to change detection threshold of electrovibration at fingertip of index finger via remote masking, […]
A Novel Texture Rendering Approach for Electrostatic Displays
Posted on March 17, 2019 Leave a Comment
Generating realistic texture feelings on tactile displays using data-driven methods has attracted a lot of interest in the last decade. However, the need for large data storages and transmission rates complicates the use of these methods for the future commercial displays. In this paper, we propose a new texture rendering approach which can compress the […]
Tactile Masking by Electrovibration
Posted on June 17, 2018 Leave a Comment
Future touch screen applications will include multiple tactile stimuli displayed simultaneously or consecutively to single finger or multiple fingers. These applications should be designed by considering human tactile masking mechanism since it is known that presenting one stimulus may interfere with the perception of the other. In this study, we investigate the effect of masking […]
Roughness perception of virtual textures displayed by electrovibration on touch screens
Posted on June 17, 2017 Leave a Comment
In this study, we have investigated the human roughness perception of periodical textures on an electrostatic display by conducting psychophysical experiments with 10 subjects. To generate virtual textures, we used low frequency unipolar pulse waves in different waveform (sinusoidal, square, saw-tooth, triangle), and spacing. We modulated these waves with a 3kHz high frequency sinusoidal carrier […]
Effect of Waveform on Tactile Perception by Electrovibration Displayed on Touchscreens
Posted on April 17, 2017 Leave a Comment
In this study, we investigated the effect of input voltage waveform on our haptic perception of electrovibration on touch screens. Through psychophysical experiments performed with eight subjects, we first measured the detection thresholds of electrovibration stimuli generated by sinusoidal and square voltages at various fundamental frequencies. We observed that the subjects were more sensitive to […]
Self-tuning in Sliding Mode Control of High-Precision Motion Systems
Posted on September 1, 2012 Leave a Comment
In high-precision motion systems, set-point tracking often comes with the problem of overshoot, hence poor settling behavior. To avoid overshoot, PD control (thus without using an integrator) is preferred over PID control. However, PD control gives rise to steady-state error in view of the constant disturbances acting on the system. To deal with both overshoot […]
Estimation of MIMO closed loop systems using transfer function data
Posted on August 1, 2012 Leave a Comment
For the development of high tech systems such as lithographic positioning systems, throughput and accuracy are the main requirements. Nowadays, the trend to reach the demanded accuracy and throughput levels is designing lightweight and consequently more flexible systems. To control these systems with a more effective and less conservative way, control design should go beyond […]
