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I thought that some of you may be interested in the address of Advanced
Robotic Research Ltd where they are developing the Teletact(tm) force
feedback data glove, amongst other things:-
Advanced Robotics Research Ltd
National Advanced Robotics Research Centre
University Road,
SALFORD, M5 4PP,
United Kingdom.
Telephone: 44-61-745-7384
Fax: 44-61-745-8264
Suggested contact: Robert J Stone, Deputy General Manager (Technical)
The latest developments of the Teletact technology (co-invented by Robert
Stone and developed in association with Air Muscle Ltd) include designing a
teletact glove which can be added to any existing non-force feedback glove
including Mattel's Power Glove, the Exos Dexterous Hand Master and Virtex's
CyberGlove. They are also investigating palmar and forearm force feedback
systems, and are developing software tools for ascribing tactile features to
virtual objects.
Their main area of research currently is the VERDEX (Virtual Enviroment
Remote Driving EXperiment) project which involves a mobile robot platform
controlled by a by a remote user without solely using TV cameras. The idea is
to 'virtually' reconstruct a remote enviroment using a pre existing CAD
representaion of the area and correlating it with geometric output from non-
visual sensors. The updated virtual picture would show the current state of
the enviroment (eg damage, obstacles) and could be explored by the remote
user. The robot platform is capable of local collision avoidance and when the
it has been guided to an area which needs more detailed information the user
can switch the robot to output stereo TV pictures. The computing system for
VERDEX is based on Division Ltd's "Vision" system.