Preliminary Evaluation of a Haptic Aiding Concept for Remotely Piloted Vehicles

This paper shows a preliminary experimental evaluation of a novel haptic aiding for Remotely Piloted Vehicles. The aerodynamically-inspired haptic feedback law was named Conventional Aircraft Artificial Feel, and was implemented as a variable stiffness spring. The experimental set-up comprises a fully nonlinear mathematical model of the aircraft, a visual display and a haptic device (a 3 DoF Omega Device). The tests, performed using a set of 18 naïve subjects, show the validity of the proposed approach.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: HAPTICS
• Authors: Samantha M. C. Alaimo, Lorenzo Pollini, Alfredo Magazzù, Jean-Pierre Bresciani, Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Mario Innocenti, Heinrich H. Bülthoff
• Keywords: Aerodynamically-inspired Haptic Feedback, DoF Omega Device, Haptic Device, HAPTICS 2010, Human Computer Interaction