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EuroHaptics 2016: Haptics: Perception, Devices, Control, and Applications pp 419–429Cite as

Affordable Wideband Sensor Coupled Vibrotactile Actuator Systems for Psychophysical Experiments

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Generation of high-amplitude high-frequency pure-tone mechanical vibrations over a wide frequency range is required in many applications, such as Vibrotactile (VT) stimulation, material testing and so on. This paper describes development of three different types of actuator systems, pneumatic, electromagnetic and piezoelectric, towards the objective of conducting VT psychophysical experiment above 1 kHz starting from few hundreds of Hz. While the piezoelectric system offers compactness, the 120 W electromagnetic system offers wider bandwidth and is capable of generating suprathreshold stimulus even above 2 kHz. Design and response of the piezoelectric actuator system, including the custom built LVDT coupled with the actuator are detailed in this paper. The frequency response of the tested configuration remains flat over a wide bandwidth till 4 kHz, even at high level of excitation, while generating bursts of 100 µm amplitude sine waves. The developed linear charge-drive is suitable for low-current application ~50 mA, maintaining low EMI and small size.

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  1. Touch Lab, Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras, Chennai, 600036, India

    Abhijit Biswas & Muniyandi Manivannan

  2. The Touch Lab, The Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Mandayam A. Srinivasan

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  1. Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

    Fernando Bello

  2. The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Japan

    Hiroyuki Kajimoto

  3. University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA

    Yon Visell

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Fig. 8.
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(Top-Left and Top-Middle) 500 WRMS audio amplifier along with the base board to drive voice-coil based actuator-system; (Middle-Left and Bottom-Left) Top and bottom sides of the amplifier board; (Top-Right) 4-chnl × 50 V/5A driver with digital signal controller for high-power electromagnetic and piezoelectric actuators connected to IEEE 1284 (EPP) interface for PC-based close-loop control; (Middle-Right and Bottom-Right) Top and bottom sides of the driver board connected to the interface board.

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Biswas, A., Manivannan, M., Srinivasan, M.A. (2016). Affordable Wideband Sensor Coupled Vibrotactile Actuator Systems for Psychophysical Experiments. In: Bello, F., Kajimoto, H., Visell, Y. (eds) Haptics: Perception, Devices, Control, and Applications. EuroHaptics 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9774. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42321-0_39

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