Haptic texture device: Design and manufacturing of a pin actuator enabling high quality texture reproduction based on finger mounted haptic pin array

Tactile Internet (TI) is the next step in the evolution of our digital communication. It will extend the conventional audiovisual interaction by enabling the users to convey the sense of touch over vast distances in real time. The potential to transfer haptic (touch) information will have a significant impact on many industries as well as on...

Efficient Meshes from Point Clouds for Tactile Internet

We can see and we can hear through the internet, but not yet touch. Tactile Internet (TI) is the paradigm that will enable the transmission of tactile feedback through the internet. TI requires Ultra Low Latency (ULL) networking to prevent desynchronization. Reaching the ULL requirements for medium to long distances is not possible without...

Estimating the mass of an object from its point cloud for Tactile Internet

A problem faced by Tactile Internet (TI) is the distance limitation. A possible solution is to create a simulation of the remote environment, such that the delay experienced by a human operator is reduced. However, to obtain a model of the remote environment, before the user interacts with it, we need to be able to estimate the physical...

Acquiring material properties of objects for tactile simulation through point cloud scans

Tactile internet enables communication in a new layer of immersion, touch. It has the potential to transform the landscape of digital communication. However, the achievable scale of tactile internet is severely limited by its 1 ms round-trip latency. We propose a workaround for the latency through tactile simulation, which can bypass the...

Simulating Disturbances in Tactile Internet to Study Desynchronization

As technology evolves, transmission speeds become faster. Tactile Internet requires ultra-low-latency (ULL) communications to further immerse humans in a remote environment by transmitting movement and force feedback, allowing them to interact with that environment in real-time. However, no transmission speed can be fast enough to support the "1...

3D Point Cloud Completion from 2.5D Data

The tactile internet can be described as the next step of the internet. It can empower people, adding physical interactions to what normally is just an audiovisual experience.<br/>It however does need ultra-low latency. <br/>A solution to having delays can be found in environment simulation.<br/>This paper describes a way to find the correct...

The negative latency haptic glove: Making Tactile Internet tangible

The field of Tactile Internet (TI) is transporting physical interactions over vast distances as if they were near. This teleoperation method increases the quality of tele-engineering, telesurgery and many other fields. However, it requires the strict end to end latency constraints of a few ms, which is still out of reach. This thesis looks at...