Aero-plane: A Handheld Force-Feedback Device

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Aero-plane: A Handheld Force-Feedback Device

Demonstration of Aero-plane rendering the weight of a virtual ball as it rolls on a virtual box that the user is interacting with.

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Side and top views with dimensions of Aero-plane. User holds the device at its center-of-mass, while the jet-propellers flow air upwards, which in turn creates a downward force.

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Description

Aero-plane is a force-feedback handheld controller based on two miniature jet propellers that can render shifting weights of up to 14 N within 0.3 seconds. Unlike other ungrounded haptic devices, this prototype realistically simulates weight changes over 2D surfaces. This work was a collaboration and was led by Andrea Bianchi who runs the MAKinteractgroup at KAIST.

Website(s)

https://lab.plopes.org/#trigeminal

Bibliography

Je, S., Kim, M. J., Lee, W., Lee, B., Yang, X. D., Lopes, P., & Bianchi, A. (2019, October). Aero-plane: A handheld force-feedback device that renders weight motion illusion on a virtual 2d plane. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (pp. 763-775).

https://makinteract.kaist.ac.kr/

https://www.kaist.ac.kr/en/

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