Haptic touch interface

CTI project in collaboration with a Swiss industrial partner

Project description

The aim of this project is to develop a haptic interface to give tactile feedback for a touchscreen. A piezoelectric actuator is used to control the friction coefficient of a surface to create impression of variable textures when the user touches the screen using his finger. Non-linear design of experiments methods and FEM analysis are also used to establish empirical model of the squeeze film phenomenon that creates the variation of friction coefficient in order to increase the performances of the actuators.

Publications

Friction feedback actuators using squeeze film effect

C. Winter / Y. Perriard (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. 

Empirical Modeling of a Squeeze Film Haptic Actuator

C. Winter; M. Markovic; Y. Perriard 

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 2014. Vol. 50, num. 3, p. 1809-1816. DOI : 10.1109/Tia.2013.2288415.

Optimal design of a squeeze film actuator for friction feedback

C. Winter; Y. Civet; Y. Perriard 

2013. 2013 IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC 2013), Chicago, IL, United states, May 12 – 15, 2013. p. 1466-1470. DOI : 10.1109/IEMDC.2013.6556336.

Design of an Haptic Tactile Interface (HTI) with Friction Coefficient Measurements

C. Winter; Y. Perriard 

Journal of International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems. 2013. Vol. 2, num. 4, p. 436-440. DOI : 10.11142/jicems.2013.2.4.436.

Haptic tactile interface: A novel click-wheel user experience

C. Winter; Y. Perriard 

2013. The International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems 2013 (ICEMS 2013), Busan, Korea, October 26 – 29, 2013. p. 1383-1387. DOI : 10.1109/ICEMS.2013.6713252.

Haptic tactile interface (HTI): Friction coefficient measurements

C. Winter; Y. Perriard 

2013. The International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems 2013 (ICEMS 2013), Busan, Korea, October 26 – 29, 2013. p. 1388-1391. DOI : 10.1109/ICEMS.2013.6713253.

Haptic Tactile Interface (HTI): Design of the Power Supply Stage

C. Winter; Y. Perriard 

2013. 15th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE), Lille, France, September 2 – 6, 2013. DOI : 10.1109/EPE.2013.6631936.

Empirical modeling of a squeeze film haptic actuator

C. Winter; M. Markovic; Y. Perriard 

2012. ICEM, Marseille, France, p. 658-663. DOI : 10.1109/ICElMach.2012.6349941.

Modeling of the air film pressure for a haptic touch actuator

C. Winter; Y. Perriard 

2011. 14th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE), Birmingham, United Kingdom,