Building the Foundation for a Modern Tactile Internet Testbed

Tactile Internet opens many new possibilities as it solves one of the critical problems in the modern-day Internet, namely latency. Remote operations are possible that are deemed too dangerous with current technologies. Interacting directly with the remote environment without being physically present will be a life-changing experience. Before...

Capturing real-time dynamic environments for Tactile Internet

Humans interact more and more at a distance these days. Where currently, this interaction is mainly visual and auditory, Tactile Internet (TI) also allows for remote kinesthetic interactions. With the devel- opment of TI, a paradigm shift is on the horizon where the current internet evolves from content delivery to a skill-set delivery network....

Solving Tactile Internet By Faking Physics

Tactile Internet (TI) allows kinesthetic interactions with a remote environment and haptic sensory feedback over a network, essentially adding a new sensory dimension to the internet. TI has a wide range of applications such as enabling remote work for professions that require human hands and tactile sensory input like car repairs or medical...

Designing a fast low-cost anthopomorphic robotic hand

In this Thesis a fast, low-cost, anthropomorphic robotic hand with tactile feedback is designed. The hand consists of an index finger and a thumb, both of which have four degrees of freedom. All eight degrees of freedom are fully actuated using eight servomotors whose forces are transferred using tendons. The design introduces tendon routing to...

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...

Blind Spots of Objective Measures: Exploiting Imperceivable Errors for Immersive Tactile Internet

Tactile Internet (TI) enables the transfer of human skills over the Internet, enabling teleoperation with force feed-back. Advancements are being made rapidly at several fronts to realize a functional TI soon. Generally, TI is expected to faithfully reproduce operator's actions at the other end, where a robotic arm emulates it while providing...

How can I touch you?: Setting the Yardstick: A Quantitative Metric for Effectively Measuring Tactile Internet

Tactile Internet (TI) is, the next frontier of connectivity development wherenot only information but interaction can be exchanged digitally. Much effort in the field of TI has been spent towards developing the necessary technologies needed to transmit interactions over the internet in a naturally perceivedway. However not much has been done on...

Towards an Open Testbed for Tactile Cyber Physical Systems

In this paper, we consider Tactile Cyber Physical Systems (TCPS), which differ from typical CPS in that haptic sensory feedback is included. In particular, we design and implement a TCPS testbed, called TCPSbed, using well-defined components and interfaces glued together using APIs. In addition to real connections, our testbed supports the...

The IEEE 1918.1 "Tactile Internet" Standards Working Group and its Standards

The IEEE 'Tactile Internet' (TI) Standards working group (WG), designated the numbering IEEE 1918.1, undertakes pioneering work on the development of standards for the TI. This paper describes the WG, its intentions, and its developing baseline standard and the associated reasoning behind that and touches on a further standard already...

Fast network congestion detection and avoidance using P4

Along with exciting visions for 5G communications and the Tactile Internet, the networking requirement of attaining extremely low end-to-end latency has appeared. While network devices are typically equipped with buffers to counteract packet loss caused by short-lived traffic bursts, the more those buffers get filled, the more delay is added to...

Challenges in Haptic Communications Over the Tactile Internet

The Tactile Internet presently constitutes a vision of an Internet over which, in addition to current communications modalities, a sense of touch can be transported. In that case, people would no longer need to be physically near the systems they operate, but could control them remotely. The main problem that needs to be solved to realize the...