Abstract
Traditional haptic interfaces require physical contact between the haptic device and the user. An elegant and novel solution is to provide contactless tactile stimulation via airborne acoustic radiation pressure. However, the characteristics of contactless tactile displays are not well studied in the literature. In this paper, we study the characteristics of the ultrasonic tactile display as a haptic interface. In particular, we examine the effects of increasing the number of ultrasound transducers on four characteristics, namely the maximum producible force, the workspace, the workspace resolution, and the robustness of the simulation. Three rectangular-shaped 2D array configurations are considered: single-tile (10\(\,\times \,\)10 transducers), two-tiles (10\(\,\times \,\)20 transducers), and four-tiles (20\(\,\times \,\)20 transducers). Results show that the maximum producible force remains almost constant as the number of tiles increases, whereas the elevation at which these maxima are generated increases. The workspace increases along the xy-plane as the number of tiles increase almost linearly, however, the elevation of the workspace remains almost the same. Finally, we found that the robustness of tactile display decreases as the number of tiles increases.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Bickley, L., Szilagui, P.: Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, 9th edn. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia (2007)
Carter, T., Seah, S., Long, B., Drinkwater, B., Subramanian, S.: Ultrahaptics: multi-point mid-air haptic feedback for touch surfaces. In: 26th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp. 505–514 (2013)
Ciglar, M.: An ultrasound based instrument generating audible and tactile sound. In: Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2010), pp. 10–22 (2010)
Dalecki, D., Child, S., Raeman, C., Carstensen, E.: Tactile perception of ultrasound. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97, 3165–3170 (1995)
Ebbini, E., Cain, C.: Multiple-focus ultrasound phased-array pattern synthesis: optimal driving-signal distributions for hyperthermia. IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelectr. Freq. Control 36, 540–548 (1989)
Eid, M.: Haptogram: aerial display of 3D vibrotactile sensation. In: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, pp. 1–5 (2014)
Gavrilov, L.: The possibility of generating focal regions of complex configurations in application to the problems of stimulation of human receptor structures by focused ultrasound. Acoust. Phys. 54, 269–278 (2008)
Hasegawa, K., Shinoda, H.: Aerial display of vibrotactile sensation with high spatial-temporal resolution using large-aperture airborne ultrasound phased array. In: World Haptics Conference, vol. 2013, pp. 31–36 (2013)
Hoshi, T.: Development of aerial-input and aerial-tactile-feedback system. In: IEEE World Haptics Conference, pp. 569–573 (2011)
Hoshi, T., Abe, D., Shinoda, H.: Adding tactile reaction to hologram. In: IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 7–11 (2009)
Hoshi, T., Iwamoto, T., Shinoda, H.: Non-contact tactile sensation synthesized by ultrasound transducers. In: Third Joint Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, pp. 256–260 (2009)
Hoshi, T., Takahashi, M., Iwamoto, T., Shinoda, H.: Noncontact tactile display based on radiation pressure of airborne ultrasound. IEEE Trans. Haptics 3, 155–165 (2010)
Inoue, S., Makino, Y., Shinoda, H.: Active touch perception produced by airborne ultrasonic haptic hologram. In: IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), pp. 362–367 (2015)
Iwamoto, T., Shinoda, H.: Two-dimensional scanning tactile display using ultrasound radiation pressure. In: IEEE Proceedings of HAPTICS, vol. 46, pp. 57–61 (2006)
Iwamoto, T., Tatezono, M., Hoshi, T., Shinoda, H.: Airborne ultrasound tactile display. In: 35th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, p. 1 (2008)
Iwamoto, T., Tatezono, M., Shinoda, H.: Non-contact method for producing tactile sensation using airborne ultrasound. In: Ferre, M. (ed.) EuroHaptics 2008. LNCS, vol. 5024, pp. 504–513. Springer, Heidelberg (2008)
Long, B., Seah, S., Carter, T., Subramanian, S.: Rendering volumetric haptic shapes in mid-air using ultrasound. ACM Trans. Graph. 33(6), 181 (2014)
Masy, S., Tangen, T., Standal, Ø., Deibele, J., Nasholm, S., Hansen, R., Angelsen, B., Johansen, T.: Nonlinear propagation acoustics of dual-frequency wide-bandexcitation pulses in a focused ultrasound system. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 128(5), 2695–2703 (2010)
Nishino, H., Goto, R., Kagawa, T., Yoshida, K., Utsumiya, K., Hirooka, J., Osada, T., Nagatomo, N., Aoki, E.: Design with tactile feedback. In: International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, pp. 53–60 (2011)
Ochiai, Y., Hoshi, T., Rekimoto, J.: Pixie dust: graphics generated by levitated and animated objects in computational acoustic-potential field. ACM Trans. Graph. 33, 85 (2014)
Shiokawa, Y., Tazo, A., Konyo, M., Maeno, T.: Hybrid display of realistic tactile sense using ultrasonic vibrator and force display. In: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3008–3013 (2008)
Takahashi, M., Shinoda, H.: Large aperture airborne ultrasound tactile display using distributed array units. In: SICE Annual Conference, pp. 359–362 (2010)
Yoshino, K., Shinoda, H.: Visio-acoustic screen for contactless touch interface with tactile sensation. In: World Haptics Conference (WHC), pp. 419–423 (2013)
Yoshino, K., Shinoda, H.: Contactless touch interface supporting blind touch interaction by aerial tactile stimulation. In: Haptics Symposium (HAPTICS), pp. 347–350 (2014)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this paper
Cite this paper
Korres, G., Eid, M. (2016). Characterization of Ultrasound Tactile Display. In: Bello, F., Kajimoto, H., Visell, Y. (eds) Haptics: Perception, Devices, Control, and Applications. EuroHaptics 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9774. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42321-0_8
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42321-0_8
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-42320-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-42321-0
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)