Project Title:Kinaesthetic compression, control, and communication for Touch-enabled Tactile Internet
Description
This project focuses on haptic communication for local processing and controlling of haptic data in teleoperation systems, aiming at optimizing the transmission strategy for networked teleoperation while ensuring system stability and high fidelity. Due to the limited network resources, it is essential to investigate signal representations and develop corresponding compression schemes that exploit the properties and conceptual limitations of haptic information.
This position focuses on kinesthetic data processing. High-fidelity teleoperation systems with kinesthetic feedback require the joint design of haptic data processing and system control to deal with communication unreliabilities in the network. Integration of different haptic communication and system control schemes introduces different amounts and kinds of artifacts to the teleoperation system. Therefore, it is essential to investigate different combinations of control and communication schemes to reveal characteristics of the resulting artifacts and achieve better teleoperation performance. The research topics include but are not limited to objective performance metrics identification, designing novel kinesthetic communication schemes, and enabling perceptually transparent and stable switching between different kinesthetic communication modes.
