A Peer-to-peer Architecture for Collaborative Haptic Assembly

Virtual Environments using haptic devices have proved useful for assembly/disassembly simulation of mechanical components. To date most haptic virtual environments are stand-alone. Collaborative Haptic Virtual Environments (CHVEs) are distributed across a number of users via a network, such as the I...

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Published in:2006 Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications pp. 25 - 34
Main Authors: Iglesias, Rosa, Casado, Sara, Gutierrez, Teresa, Garcia-Alonso, Alejandro, Yap, Kian Meng, Yu, Wai, Marshall, Alan
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC, USA IEEE Computer Society 02.10.2006
IEEE
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
Assembly
Collaboration
Computer systems organization > Architectures > Distributed architectures
Computing methodologies > Computer graphics > Graphics systems and interfaces > Virtual reality
Computing methodologies > Modeling and simulation > Simulation support systems > Simulation environments
Computing methodologies > Modeling and simulation > Simulation theory > Systems theory
Force feedback
Haptic interfaces
Human-centered computing > Human computer interaction (HCI) > Interaction devices > Haptic devices
Human-centered computing > Human computer interaction (HCI) > Interaction paradigms > Mixed > augmented reality
Human-centered computing > Human computer interaction (HCI) > Interaction paradigms > Virtual reality
IP networks
Jitter
Layout
Peer to peer computing
Scalability
Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Software system structures > Distributed systems organizing principles
Virtual environment
ISBN:9780769526973, 0769526977
ISSN:1550-6525
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Summary:Virtual Environments using haptic devices have proved useful for assembly/disassembly simulation of mechanical components. To date most haptic virtual environments are stand-alone. Collaborative Haptic Virtual Environments (CHVEs) are distributed across a number of users via a network, such as the Internet. These present new challenges to the designer, such as consistency of the virtual environments, user-user haptic interaction, and scalability. The system described in this paper considers the CHVEs to be distributed over a packet-switched network such as the Internet. It gives priority to the validation of interactions between objects grasped by users; guarantees consistency across different users' virtual environments. The paper explains the components used and the consistency-maintenance scheme that guarantees the consistency of the virtual scene in the remote nodes. Consistency and force feedback results are also discussed. Results presented show the system maintains a consistent and satisfactory response when network incurs delay or packet jitter.
ISBN:9780769526973
0769526977
ISSN:1550-6525
DOI:10.1109/DS-RT.2006.3