• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.3064-3082
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• 2023

During the last decade, several Electronic Orientation Aids devices have been proposed to solve the autonomy problems of visually impaired people. When hearing is considered the primary sense for Visually Impaired people (VI) and it is generally loaded with the environment, the use of tactile sense can be considered a solution to transmit directional information. This paper presents a new wearable haptic system based on four motors implemented in shoes, while six directions can be played. This study aims to introduce an interface design and investigate an appropriate means of spatial information delivery through haptic sense. The first experiment of the proposed system was performed with 15 users in an indoor environment. The results showed that the users were able to recognize, with high accuracy, the directions displayed on their feet. The second experiment was conducted in an outdoor environment with five blindfolded users who were guided along 120 meters. The users, guided only by the haptic system, successfully reached their destinations. The potential of tactile-foot stimulation to help VI understand Electronic Orientation Aids (EOA) instructions was discussed, and future challenges were defined.

• 한국HCI학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.13-20
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• 2019

산업안전을 위한 가상훈련시스템들 중 마중형 햅틱 제시 시스템에서는 가상 및 실제 물체 사이의 자연스러운 상호 작용을 위해 시각-촉각 일치가 필요하며 이를 위해 캘리브레이션이 수행된다. 본 논문에서는 어느 정도의 시각-촉각 일치를 구현한 몰입형 VR 햅틱 시스템의 사용자 평가를 수행하였다. 평가의 목표는 실제 및 가상환경에서 수행하는 일정한 과업들에 대해 두 환경에 대한 사용자 성능 (반응시간 및 거리 정확도)이 크게 다르지 않다는 것을 보이는 것이다. 사용자 평가 결과는 반응 시간에서 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 보이지만 절대 차이는 1초 미만이며 거리 정확도는 가상 환경과 실제 환경 간에 차이가 없는 것을 보여준다. 따라서 개발된 햅틱가상훈련시스템은 값비싼 실제 환경을 대신하여 저렴하게 산업안전 훈련을 할 수 있다고 사료된다.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국HCI학회 2008년도 학술대회 1부
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• pp.49-54
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• 2008

In order to do a maintenance task, a maintenance operator should learn the basic skills of the maintenance task such as assembly and disassembly (A/D). However, the key of the learning process is to learn the A/D task intuitively and naturally. Haptic guidance promises to give effectiveness and benefit qualitatively since a person can be trained to do the optimal task based on information that comes from an expert, database, or intelligent algorithms. By applying haptic guidance, a maintenance training process can be made more intuitive and natural in a virtual environment. This paper describes the development of a maintenance training system by using haptic guidance.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국HCI학회 2009년도 학술대회
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• pp.214-220
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• 2009

Recent advanced technologies enable multiple users to share the virtual environment and work together as they are collocated. Additional sensory information such as haptic could improve the cooperation. In this paper, we propose a server-client architecture with multi-rate haptic control to support a tangible cooperation. Using our approach, the system is able to maintain a consistent simulation state across multiple users as well as to provide a highfidelity stable haptic interaction. To verify our approach, we have developed an experimental application and tested the cooperation among multiple users. The results confirm that our system is able to provide coherency among clients as well as haptic transparency.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제16권5호통권98호
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• pp.112-123
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• 1999

Virtual reality is becoming a powerful tool for various applications such as training, entertainment, surgery, tele-robotics etc. One potential use for virtual reality is to allow several users to interact in a single virtual environment, for example several students sitting in front of different computers connected over a network. In this paper, we present a loosely coupled architecture of haptic display in the multi-user virtual world. The method of controlling haptic devices as well as the way of configuring individual haptic display system are addressed. We will develop an experimental virtual reality system for two remote users and conclude with an experimental work for the task of a multi-player ping-pong and grasping of a common object.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2003년도 ISIS 2003
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• pp.236-239
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• 2003

In this paper, we investigate the issues for the design and implementation of tele-operation system based on the haptic interface. Here, the 3-DOF haptic device and the x-y-z stage are employed as master controller and slave system respectively. In this master-slave system, the force feedback algorithm, the modeling of virtual environments and the control method of x-y-z stage are proposed. In this paper, inernet network is used for data communication between master and slave. We construct virtual environment of the real convex surface from the force-feedback in controlling the X-Y-Z stage and getting the force applied by the 3-DOF haptic device.

• 융복합기술연구소 논문집
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.15-20
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• 2016

This paper presents the effects of a virtual mass on the stability boundary of a virtual spring in the haptic system. A haptic system consists of a haptic device, a sampler, a virtual rigid body and zero-order-hold. The virtual rigid body is modeled as a virtual spring and a virtual mass. According to the virtual mass and the sampling time, the stability boundary of the virtual spring is analyzed through the simulation. As the virtual mass increases, the value of the virtual spring to guarantee the stability gradually increases and then decreases after reaching the maximum value. These simulation results show that the addition of the virtual mass enables to expand the stability boundary of the virtual spring.

• International Journal of CAD/CAM
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.41-44
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• 2009

This paper describes an implementation of virtual teeth modeling for a haptic dental simulation. The system allows dental students to practice dental procedures with realistic tactual feelings. The system requires fast and stable haptic rendering and volume modeling techniques working on the virtual tooth. In our implementation, a volumetric implicit surface is used for intuitive shape modification without topological constraints and haptic rendering. The volumetric implicit surface is generated from input geometric model by using a closest point transformation algorithm. And for visual rendering, we apply an adaptive polygonization method to convert volumetric teeth model to geometric model. We improve our previous system using new octree design to save memory requirement while increase the performance and visual quality.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2002년도 학술대회 논문집 전문대학교육위원
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• pp.67-71
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a new deformable model based on non-linear elasticity, anisotropic behavior and the finite element method and developed the high-speed controller for haptic control. The proposed controller is based on the PCI/FPGA technology, which can calculate the real position and transmit the force data to device rapidly, The haptic system is composed of 6DOF force display device, high-speed controller and HIR library for 3D graphic deformation algorithm & haptic rendering algorithm. The developed system will be used on constructing the dynamical virtual environment. we demonstrate the relevance of this approach for the real-time simulating deformations of elastic objects. To show the efficiency of our system, we designed simulation program of force-reflecting, As the result of the experiment, we found that the controller has much higher resolution than some other controllers.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:시스템및이론
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• 제31권12호
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• pp.682-691
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 햅틱 인터페이스를 통해 실제 찰흙을 만지는 것처럼 자연스럽게 가상 모델의 일부를 덧붙이거나 제거하여 원하는 모양을 만드는 햅틱 가상 조각 시스템을 소개하고자 한다. 햅틱 렌더링과 햅틱 툴에 의한 가상 모델의 변형은 볼륨 간접 표면 법을 기반으로 이루어진다. 본 시스템에서는 기존의 불륨 데이타 기반의 햅틱 조각 시스템이 갖는 문제점들을 개선하고 빠르고 안정된 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 먼저 가상의 물체를 조각하는 동안 빠른 햅틱 응답 속도(1 KHz)에 비해 훨씬 느린 비쥬얼 프로세싱(~30 Hz)의 속도 차이로 인해 발생되는 문제를 극복하기 위해 조각과정의 연속적인 두 모델의 중간 표면들을 생성하여 부드러운 햅틱 렌더링을 구현하였다. 조각 툴에 의해 변형되는 불륨 간접 표면은 비쥬얼 디스플레이를 위해 메쉬 모델로 컨버전 되는데 이때 메쉬 모델은 표면의 복잡도를 반영하여 적은 폴리곤으로 복잡한 모양을 보여줄 수 있는 비 군일 메쉬 생성 기법을 사용하였다. 실시간 조각과정에서 가상 물체의 다양한 비쥬얼 효과를 위해 메쉬 기반의 솔리드 덱스쳐링, 페인팅, 그리고 모델의 양각/음각기법도 구현하였다.