Tactor Factor: A Pneumatic Tactile Display
dc.contributor.author | Kratchman, Louis | |
dc.contributor.author | Michener, Marc | |
dc.contributor.author | Minardi, Timothy | |
dc.contributor.author | Wen, Jian | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Gillespie, Brent | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-05-14T23:39:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-05-14T23:39:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-04 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62190 | |
dc.description | Final report and team photo for Project 12 of ME450, Winter 2009 semester | en |
dc.description.abstract | Generating stimuli for the sense of touch that can be refreshed or animated under computer control is significantly more challenging than generating stimuli for the eyes or ears. The computer monitor and speaker act at a distance, whereas display for the sense of touch requires mechanical contact across distributed areas of skin accompanied by forces sufficient to produce localized skin displacements. Powering and packing actuators into a dense array compatible with the skin requires extremely efficient power transmission and conversion. Enter: pneumatics. This project lead to a prototype array of independently addressable actuators capable of producing small lateral movement of skin over a range of frequencies. A pneumatic reservoir supplies the power while computer-controlled valves and microchannels, as well as a compliant mechanism gates and transmits power to the skin. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Brent Gillespie (Mechanical Engineering, U of M) | en |
dc.format.extent | 198172 bytes | |
dc.format.extent | 11020279 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | image/jpeg | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
dc.subject | ME450 | en |
dc.subject | W09 | en |
dc.subject | Tactile | en |
dc.subject | Display | en |
dc.title | Tactor Factor: A Pneumatic Tactile Display | en |
dc.type | Project | en |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Mechanical Engineering | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Engineering | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Students | en |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/62190/2/ME450 Winter2009 Team Photo - Project 12 - Pneumatic Tactile Display.jpg | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/62190/1/ME450 Winter2009 Final Report - Project 12 - Pneumatic Tactile Display.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Mechanical Engineering, Department of |
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