Description du projet
Les dispositifs tactiles de nouvelle génération vont accroitre la sensation d’immersion
Les technologies haptiques ont recréé le sens du toucher en ayant recours à des moyens mécaniques ou électriques pour offrir des expériences immersives. Leurs applications vont des jeux vidéo et de la réalité virtuelle à la robotique, en passant par la recherche médicale. Le projet TACTILITY, financé par l’UE, met actuellement au point la prochaine génération de systèmes interactifs, qui renforcera la sensation d’immersion des utilisateurs. Pour ce faire, il mène des recherches de pointe sur la stimulation transcutanée, les électrodes multi-pads à base textile et la peau électronique. S’il est couronné de succès, le projet permettra d’offrir des expériences fidèles à la réalité grâce à des technologies portables conviviales et peu coûteuses.
Objectif
TACTILITY is a multidisciplinary innovation and research action with the overall aim of including rich and meaningful tactile information into the novel interaction systems through technology for closed-loop tactile interaction with virtual environments. By mimicking the characteristics of the natural tactile feedback, it will substantially increase the quality of immersive VR experience used locally or remotely (tele-manipulation).
The approach is based on transcutaneous electro-tactile stimulation delivered through electrical pulses with high resolution spatio-temporal distribution. To achieve it, significant development of technologies for transcutaneous stimulation, textile-based multi-pad electrodes and tactile sensation electronic skin, coupled with ground-breaking research of perception of elicited tactile sensations in VR, is needed.
The key novelty is in the combination of:
1) the ground-breaking research of perception of electrotactile stimuli for the identification of the stimulation parameters and methods that evoke natural like tactile sensations,
2) the advanced hardware, that will integrate the novel high-resolution electrotactile stimulation system and state of the art artificial electronic skin patches with smart textile technologies and VR control devices in a wearable mobile system, and
3) the novel firmware, that handles real-time encoding and transmission of tactile information from virtual objects in VR, as well as from the distant tactile sensors (artificial skins) placed on robotic or human hands.
Proposed research and innovation action would result in a next generation of interactive systems with higher quality experience for both local and remote (e.g. tele-manipulation) applications. Ultimately, TACTILITY will enable high fidelity experience through low-cost, user friendly, wearable and mobile technology.
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