Taught by Dr. Katherine Kuchenbecker, MEAM 625: Haptic Interfaces, a grad-level class on the science and technology of touch-based interactions for virtual environments, teleoperation, and autonomous robots. Twenty-eight students have put together eight great projects and will be demonstrating them for you this Friday:
Improve your golf putting accuracy by practicing your swing with haptic guidance
Throw and catch a virtual ball that you can feel in your hand
Blindly navigate unknown areas using a smart cane that alerts you to overhead obstacles
Play a virtual drum that you can see, feel, and hear all at once
Learn how to hit a tennis ball from a virtual haptic tennis coach
Try to locate the lump in a mock prostate using a tactile sensing array for robotic surgery
Kick a virtual haptic soccer ball and try to score a goal
Watch the PR2 robot automatically find objects on a table via tactile scanning