Construction of Haptic Transmission Network for Haptic Broadcasting by Articulated Multilateral Control

Abstract

Recently, haptic broadcasting technology has received considerable attention, and the construction of haptic broadcasting network is desired. In this paper, we propose a method of the construction of haptic transmission networks for haptic broadcasting by articulated multilateral control. The proposed method can be used to realize the following; 1) real-time-controlled haptic transmission between many systems and 2) change in the number of systems without modifying the control systems. As a result, it is possible to receive force feedback from remote environments when many haptic devices are connected to each other. The experimental results prove the feasibility of the proposed method.