Books in the Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems series

This book meets the need to understand performance metrics for haptic interfaces and their implications on device design, use and application. The authors propose evaluation practices including a combined physical and psychophysical experimental methodology.

This literature review on haptic textures examines the problem of rendering virtual haptic textures with force-feedback devices. It provides a thorough grounding in the subject and includes tools for analyzing the textures that a haptic device can produce.

The focus from most Virtual Reality (VR) systems lies mainly on the visual immersion of the user.

This book features a comprehensive review of the sense of touch from the psychophysical, biomechanical and technological viewpoints. It presents guidelines for mechatronics design and the control of high-fidelity vibrotactile devices.

This open access book offers an original interdisciplinary overview of the role of haptic feedback in musical interaction.

The recreation of touch feedback through haptic devices is a possible solution, however haptic devices are far from perfect and improving their design is usually a slow trial-and-error process.

This book looks at the common problems both human and robotic hands encounter when controlling the large number of joints, actuators and sensors required to efficiently perform motor tasks such as object exploration, manipulation and grasping. The authors adopt an integrated approach to explore the control of the hand based on sensorimotor synergies that can be applied in both neuroscience and robotics. Hand synergies are based on goal-directed, combined muscle and kinematic activation leading to a reduction of the dimensionality of the motor and sensory space, presenting a highly effective solution for the fast and simplified design of artificial systems.Presented in two parts, the first part, Neuroscience, provides the theoretical and experimental foundations to describe the synergistic organization of the human hand. The second part, Robotics, Models and Sensing Tools, exploits the framework of hand synergies to better control and design robotic hands and haptic/sensing systems/tools, using a reduced number of control inputs/sensors, with the goal of pushing their effectiveness close to the natural one.Human and Robot Hands provides a valuable reference for students, researchers and designers who are interested in the study and design of the artificial hand.

This open access book offers an original interdisciplinary overview of the role of haptic feedback in musical interaction.

This monograph presents innovative research regarding the body experience of human individuals who are using assistive robotic devices such as wearable robots or teleoperation systems.