Operation Discrimination Using Skin Vibration

-Study on the Characteristics of Vibration and the Presentation Position-

Abstract

We are exploring new applications using haptic sharing. If we were able to capture and perceive the sensations and movements of others into ourselves, we could conduct cooperative works with others on the basis of shared haptic perception. We demonstrated human-robot cooperation by sending human haptic information during the task to the robot. Regarding human-human cooperation, humans need to perceive haptic information and identify the other’s state on the task. Therefore, in this paper, the identification of different tool operations by presenting vibrotactile stimulation that reproduces the skin vibration collected during each operation was tested. Performance of the identification was investigated on different positions to present vibrotactile stimulation and on the multi inputs of vibrotactile stimulation.