Efficient Recording and Playback of Haptic Interaction

在过去的十年里，视听交流塑造了人类与技术系统或通过技术系统互动和交流的方式。在接下来的十年里，触觉通信和触觉计算有可能进一步增强人与人和人与机器之间的交互和交流。该方案的目标是研究在真实世界或虚拟多模式远程呈现和遥操作会话期间捕获的触觉信号的有效记录和回放的方法。用于记录和回放触觉交互会话的应用可以在培训、文档和性能分析场景中找到。我们将通过设计、实施和评估触觉交互试验台，从理论上和实验上研究触觉交流。更具体地说，我们将开发一个人类触觉感知的数学模型，并利用该模型对触觉数据流进行有效的有损压缩。我们计划将基于事件的触觉概念整合为一种有前途的策略，以改善触摸刚性对象时的触觉沉浸感。将对触觉信号的离线压缩方案的性能进行客观和主观的评估。两位主要研究人员都对推进触觉通信和计算领域表现出了非常浓厚的兴趣。他们拥有互补的技能，可以记录两个机构之间五年多的成功合作和流动。

Audio-visual communication has shaped the way humans Interact and communicate with or through technical systems during the last decade. During the next decade, haptic communication and haptic computing have the potential to further augment human-to-human and human-to-machine interaction and communication. The goal of this proposal Is to investigate methods for the efficient recording and playback of haptic signals captured during real-world or virtual multimodal telepresence and telemanipulation sessions. Applications for the recording and playback of haptic interaction sessions can be found in training, documentation and performance analysis scenarios. We will study haptic communication both from a theoretical point of view but also experimentally by designing, implementing and evaluating haptic interaction testbeds. More specifically, we will develop a mathematical model of human haptic perception and exploit this model for the efficient lossy compression of haptic data streams. We are planning to integrate the concept of event-based haptics as a promising strategy for improving the haptic immersion when touching rigid objects. The performance of the offline compression schemes for haptic signals will be evaluated both objectively and subjectively. Both principal investigators express a very strong interest in advancing the field of haptic communication and computing. They possess complementary skills and can document more than five years of successful collaboration and mobility between the two institutions.