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MarkCutkosky - 21 Feb 2007
21 Feb
Agenda:
Introductions
Present: (SU) Jason, Karlin, Li, Mark C. and Alan Sledd
who is helping Li on the "haptic device" design.
(Tampere) Roope, Veikko, Arto, Jani, Jukka, Jussi
Status of various projects
1. Jason -- 3 subjects so far on new treadmill.
Looking at 3 more in next couple of days.
Similar results for both tactor devices. Now
doing more with the EAI tactor and looking at
ramp input. Press button when stimulus first
detected.
Tactors attached on arm above elbow and leg above
knee. Also measuring accelerations directly
for reference.
Other body parts? -- Not yet, as the experiments
are already fairly long per subject. Will examine
later.
Tampere -- looking at standardized amplifiers.
Are you using a linear current amplifier?
Audio amplifier? --- Using sound card settings.
Jason - using direct D/A converter and linear
current amplifier (standard force control setup).
Sound card approach -- will require some
calibration and setting levels but should give
good control.
Jason - to send data about accelerometer & info.
to correlate current/voltage/force behavior.
Microphone during bicycling, vocal response to
stimulus. Might be faster response than
motor->button push.
Decision-making in feedback path? If have more
than one tactor (where & when).
2. Haptic Ball prototype and related
developments.
http://bdml.stanford.edu/twiki/bin/viewauth/Private/Haptics.HapticBall
login =
TauchiUsers? ; password = (what we sent you earlier)
Time frame -- prototype (we hope) ready for experiments
with haptic feedback in ~1 month.
Force feedback or other feedback? Vibration feedback
and perhaps also skin stretch added later.
Polar device arrived at Stanford yesterday.
3. Karlin -- data analysis on reaction time experiments.
Some statistically significant results to indicate
that changes in magnitude of stimulus (number
of degrees) was correlated with speed of response.
However, some questions from Stanford side
regarding controller tracking accuracy with
variable load so need to re-examine this & perhaps
repeat with modified control algorithm.
Tampere -- Grigori's haptic bar. (See attached PDF file
on shared Haptic Bar experiment:
Haptic-bar-experiment.pdf
4. Study gathering results. We (SU) could talk
with them direction. Maybe Li would be a good
person to initiate that dialog from here.
Well send their email.
In the background some other work on investigating optical
sensing for haptic devices. If it proves relevant
we will incorporate it...
Tampere -- starting some other new projects
and if relevant may discuss next time.
Project Meeting in August -- So far, August is pretty flexible
at Stanford end. Week of 20th or 13th of August.
Also meet with business partners at that time.
Maybe choose 16th, 17th August for meeting.
Possible other visits correlated with the event.
Li's possible visit to Tampere -- in August?
Still trying to plan. Would be useful if could
overlap with the visit of Cutkosky &.
Jukka - visa & information. Sunday april 29, leave
wed 25 July. (3 months).
We should see what wecan do to help with housing.
Family with him in July.
World Haptics? be nice goal to have something for the next
one. Eurohaptics. Sometimes is combined.
IRB prototocol -- 1st draft -- asked for research
plans in more detail.
Would it help to send them a copy of Jason's
report (from January)?
Short term -- try to get approvals one-by-one for
rather specific experiments and get "modification
approvals" as we go.