Stanford CDR Haptics Main Page

Welcome to the Stanford wiki for the Dexterous Manipulation Lab. This website is primarily intended as a shared electronic notebook for researchers in the lab. Visitors are welcome to peruse the public pages.

Topics on this homepage:

• Projects:
  • Current
  • Past
• Other Topics
• Literature and Links
• Publications and Presentations

• IFOS/NIH SBIR on Fiber Optic Tactile Sensing for Cardiology Applications: Force and texture sensing for ablation catheters using fiber optic sensors

• MRI-compatible haptics: Force and deflection sensing for MRI-compatible biopsy needles using fiber optic sensors

• Mobile Haptics- TauchiRehabilitationProject: Mobile Haptics is a joint project with University of Tampere and University of Stanford. The project focus in research of touch feedback in single- and multimodal user interfaces.

• Skin Stretch Display: Investigation of skin stretch display for portable haptic devices- Determining how to control skin stretch and studying perception
• MotionDisplayKAUST -- New (July08) project on using SkinStretch to display movement of subjects captured using optical motion tracking and dynamic simulation software.

• EmgSkinStretch

• IFOS/NASA SBIR on Fiber Optic Force/Tactile Sensing: Development of Force Sensing Smart Robot Skins and Tactile-Feedback Motion Control for Robotic Manipulators- A collaboration with IFOS and NASA

• Tactor.Net: Skin stretch wireless tactile displays

• Haptic Feedback in Virtual Training Applications

• Skin Stretch and Friction via Contact Location Display