Engineering Haptic Devices A Beginner's Guide for Engineers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kern, Thorsten A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Engineering.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Bioinformatics.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Mechatronics.; Biomedical engineering.; Biomedical Engineering.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics.

Tactile perception and haptics are essential for us, as we gain information about structures and surface properties of physical objects by using the sense of touch. Haptics also enables us to manipulate the physical world. The emphasis of this book is put on technologies for artificially deceiving o...