Haptic interaction between human and virtual iCub robot using Novint Falcon with CHAI3D and MATLAB

Pierre Renon, Chenguang Yang, Hongbin Ma, Rongxin Cui

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Abstract

The paper describes our preliminary investigation of haptic interaction between the human and virtual iCub robot. With haptic interaction, the user is able to have tactile sensensaiton of the robot environment, and hence to manipulate a robot remotely, for instance, from the user's office to perform some tasks at home, or a patient operation, realized by a surgeon several miles away. In this work, haptic interaction has been implemented using a 3D joystick, Novint Falcon, to connect with a virtual robot created by the Cub Simulator, which works with YARP interface and simulates the real iCub robot developed by Italian scientists. To this end, two approaches based on CHAI3D and MATLAB are introduced and implemented in this paper and furthermore, some ideas to improve the human-robot interaction performance have also been discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 32nd Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2013
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages6045-6050
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9789881563835
StatePublished - 18 Oct 2013
Event32nd Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2013 - Xi'an, China
Duration: 26 Jul 201328 Jul 2013

Publication series

NameChinese Control Conference, CCC
ISSN (Print)1934-1768
ISSN (Electronic)2161-2927

Conference

Conference32nd Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi'an
Period26/07/1328/07/13

Keywords

  • CHAI3D
  • Novint Falcon
  • YARP
  • haptic interaction
  • iCub Simulator
  • virtual robot

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