Haptic ankle platform for interactive walking in virtual reality.
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Author(s)
Otaran, Ata
Farkhatdinov, Ildar
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
This paper presents an impedance type ankle haptic interface for providing users with an immersive navigation experience in virtual reality (VR). The ankle platform actuated by an electric motor with feedback control enables the use of foot-tapping gestures to create a walking experience similar to a real one and to haptically render different types of walking terrains. Experimental studies demonstrated that the interface can be easily used to generate virtual walking and it is capable to render terrains such as hard and soft surfaces, and multi-layer complex dynamic terrains. The designed system is a seated-type VR locomotion interface, therefore allowing its user to maintain a stable seated posture to comfortably navigate a virtual scene.
Date Issued
2021-09-10
Date Acceptance
2021-09-01
Citation
IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph, 2021, PP
Publisher
IEEE
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph
Volume
PP
Copyright Statement
©2021 The Author(s)
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34506284
Subjects
Software Engineering
0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
0802 Computation Theory and Mathematics
Publication Status
Published online
Coverage Spatial
United States