Tactile and haptic glove interface

This interface is a telerobotics application and consists of the following 3 parts:

• Development of tactile glove: We developed a fabric tactile sensor array in the form of a glove that would be fitted to a robotic hand. The output of the tactile sensor is inversely proportional to the pressure applied by an external object.
• Development of haptic glove: To facilitate the remote human operator to perceive and understand distant and inaccessible environments, we developed haptic glove intending to render and replicate the sense of touch.
• Interface: Worked on developing a first-generation interface that enables the user to feel the object gripped by the robot, by determining the amount of pressure applied to the sensorized tactile glove and equivalently modulating vibratory haptic feedback on the haptic glove worn by the user.

  Depending on the amount of pressure applied to the sensorized robotic hand equivalent vibration will be be experienced by the user. Figure below displays that high pressure is applied to the robotic hand and equivalent intensity vibration will be felt by the remote user wearing the haptic glove.