TY - JOUR
T1 - Spatiotemporal coupler
T2 - Storage and reproduction of human finger motions
AU - Tsunashima, Noboru
AU - Katsura, Seiichiro
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received September 4, 2010; revised January 26, 2011 and May 31, 2011; accepted June 11, 2011. Date of publication July 5, 2011; date of current version October 18, 2011. This work was supported in part by Industrial Technology Research Grant Program 07C46047a from the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of Japan.
PY - 2012/2
Y1 - 2012/2
N2 - Currently, the development of a leading-edge technology for saving and reproducing human motions in terms of haptic information is required for various fields. To address these requirements, a motion-copying system has already been proposed. This system is a key technology that enables the realization of the acquisition, preservation, and reproduction of real-world haptic information. In order to apply this system to various fields, the use of the concept involving two types of coupling is important: that involving spatial and temporal couplings. In this paper, the use of the concept mentioned earlier is proposed, and the related system is named spatiotemporal coupler. The proposed coupler is divided into two couplers. One is a spatial coupler, and the other is a temporal coupler. The spatial coupler connects human motions that are saved by haptic devices with different configurations according to the information for a human model. On the other hand, the temporal coupler integrates the saved motions temporally, and the integrated motion is reproduced as a single motion. The proposed concept is applied to finger motion in the experiments. The experimental results validate the proposed technology.
AB - Currently, the development of a leading-edge technology for saving and reproducing human motions in terms of haptic information is required for various fields. To address these requirements, a motion-copying system has already been proposed. This system is a key technology that enables the realization of the acquisition, preservation, and reproduction of real-world haptic information. In order to apply this system to various fields, the use of the concept involving two types of coupling is important: that involving spatial and temporal couplings. In this paper, the use of the concept mentioned earlier is proposed, and the related system is named spatiotemporal coupler. The proposed coupler is divided into two couplers. One is a spatial coupler, and the other is a temporal coupler. The spatial coupler connects human motions that are saved by haptic devices with different configurations according to the information for a human model. On the other hand, the temporal coupler integrates the saved motions temporally, and the integrated motion is reproduced as a single motion. The proposed concept is applied to finger motion in the experiments. The experimental results validate the proposed technology.
KW - Bilateral control
KW - haptic energy conversion
KW - human support system
KW - motion-copying system
KW - real-world haptics
KW - skill acquisition
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U2 - 10.1109/TIE.2011.2161247
DO - 10.1109/TIE.2011.2161247
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80054800823
SN - 0278-0046
VL - 59
SP - 1074
EP - 1085
JO - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
JF - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
IS - 2
M1 - 5940225
ER -