Haptic sensors interfaces for robotic telemanipulation and interactive virtual environments

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Haptics is an emergent sensory representation medium for robotic telemanipulation and model-based multimedia virtual reality applications, where it adds the sense of touch and force to the video and CAD geometric representations. The main objective of proposed research is the development of new haptic robot sensors and interfaces, composite geometric & haptic object models, and robust real-time computing techniques for robotic telemanipulation and interactive virtual environments. An experimental haptic interactive virtual environment will be developed to evaluate the new concepts. The short term-objectives are: -  Development of more efficient haptic robot sensors for robotic telemanipulation systems; -  Study of new concepts for the development of haptic interfaces for object manipulation in interactive virtual environments and robotic telemanipulation systems; -  Development of  new instrumentation and sensor data fusion techniques for the production of geometric & haptic composite object models which are conformal representations of real physical objects, accounting for their geometric shape and elastic behaviour while interacting through direct contact with other objects; -  Study of new computing techniques for the storage and real-time rendering of the composite geometric & haptic object models.