Descrizione del progetto
I sistemi tattili di nuova generazione aumentano il senso di immersione
Le tecnologie aptiche hanno ricreato il senso del tatto con mezzi meccanici o elettrici per offrire esperienze coinvolgenti. Le applicazioni spaziano dai videogiochi e dalla realtà virtuale alla robotica e alla ricerca medica. Il progetto TACTILITY, finanziato dall’UE, sta sviluppando la prossima generazione di sistemi interattivi che miglioreranno il senso di immersione degli utenti. Esso sta conducendo ricerche all’avanguardia sulla stimolazione transcutanea, su elettrodi multi-pad a base tessile e sulla pelle elettronica. In caso di successo, il progetto consentirà un’esperienza ad alta fedeltà attraverso una tecnologia indossabile a basso costo e intuitiva.
Obiettivo
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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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
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