Project Title:Multimodal Tactile Data 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 tactile data processing. Achieving high fidelity of tactile experience requires three main components: (i) efficient acquisition of tactile object properties, (ii) analysis and compression of tactile information, and (iii) tactile display technology. To this end, novel tactile codecs that support multiple touch points and multimodal signals with high compression rate and transparent touch impressions will be developed. In addition, psychophysical observations are required to reduce the necessary temporal and spatial resolution for transmitting tactile properties over a network. Going beyond the state-of-the-art it requires a multidisciplinary approach combining expertise from haptics, communication, source coding, protocol design, control theory and psychophysics.
