TY - GEN
T1 - Micro hydraulic system using slim artificial muscles for a wearable haptic glove
AU - Ryu, Dongseok
AU - Moon, Kyung Won
AU - Nam, Hyungdo
AU - Lee, Yongkwun
AU - Chun, Changmook
AU - Kang, Sungchul
AU - Song, Jea Bok
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Over the past few decades, various haptic gloves have been developed for use in virtual environments. The actuating systems for most existing haptic gloves require lots of external auxiliary equipment. Because of this, the motion of the user is restricted by the length of the electric wires or pneumatic tubes attached to this equipment. A compact actuation system, including related equipment, is thus indispensable for a wearable haptic glove to be truly effective. To resolve the problem of hampered motion and reach, a micro hydraulic actuating system was developed in this research. It was composed of a slim, flexible artificial muscle, a compact hydraulic module for actuating the muscle, and a micro pressure sensor for measuring without flux loss. The characteristics of the muscle were investigated for their control capacity. The step and sinusoidal responses were analyzed to evaluate the performance of the micro hydraulic system. Once these analyses were completed, a lightweight and compact actuation system was built incorporating a wearable haptic glove. By virtue of the developed micro hydraulic system, the wearable haptic glove was able to operate independently of any external equipment, and movement was completely free of any restrictions from wires or tubes.
AB - Over the past few decades, various haptic gloves have been developed for use in virtual environments. The actuating systems for most existing haptic gloves require lots of external auxiliary equipment. Because of this, the motion of the user is restricted by the length of the electric wires or pneumatic tubes attached to this equipment. A compact actuation system, including related equipment, is thus indispensable for a wearable haptic glove to be truly effective. To resolve the problem of hampered motion and reach, a micro hydraulic actuating system was developed in this research. It was composed of a slim, flexible artificial muscle, a compact hydraulic module for actuating the muscle, and a micro pressure sensor for measuring without flux loss. The characteristics of the muscle were investigated for their control capacity. The step and sinusoidal responses were analyzed to evaluate the performance of the micro hydraulic system. Once these analyses were completed, a lightweight and compact actuation system was built incorporating a wearable haptic glove. By virtue of the developed micro hydraulic system, the wearable haptic glove was able to operate independently of any external equipment, and movement was completely free of any restrictions from wires or tubes.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=69549124769&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IROS.2008.4651159
DO - 10.1109/IROS.2008.4651159
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:69549124769
SN - 9781424420582
T3 - 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS
SP - 3028
EP - 3033
BT - 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS
T2 - 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS
Y2 - 22 September 2008 through 26 September 2008
ER -