Plug-and-Play Haptic Interaction for Tactile Internet Based on WebRTC

Conference paper (2021)

Authors

Ken Iiyoshi New York University Abu Dhabi
Ruth Gebremedhin New York University Abu Dhabi
V. Gokhale Embedded Systems - EEMCS
Mohamad Eid New York University Abu Dhabi
Research Group
Embedded Systems (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
WebRTC Haptic-Audio-Visual (HAV) handshake Request/response Tactile Internet (TI) TI Metadata (TIM)
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Published Date

2021

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Software Technology

Research Group

Embedded Systems

Abstract

Tactile Internet promises a widespread adoption of haptic communication over the Internet. However, as haptic technologies are becoming more diversified and available than ever, the need has arisen for a plug-and-play (PnP) haptic communication over a computer network. This paper presents a system for enabling PnP communication of heterogeneous haptic interfaces. The system is based on three key features: (i) a haptic metadata to make haptic interfaces self-descriptive, (ii) a handshake protocol to automatically exchange haptic metadata between two communicating devices, and (iii) a multimodal (haptic-audio-visual) media communication protocol. Implemented using WebRTC, the PnP communication is evaluated using a Tele-Writing application with two heterogeneous haptic interfaces, namely Geomagic Touch and Novint Falcon. Our findings demonstrate the potential of the system to be employed in any Tactile Internet scenario.