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Opening the haptic loop: Network degradation limits for haptic task performance

  • Technical University of Munich
  • Universität der Bundeswehr München

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Abstract

For realtime teleoperation with haptic feedback, network-induced artifacts like delay, packet loss and lossy coding of haptic data deteriorate the operability of the system. We provide a systematic quantification of the limits within which, these network-induced degradations are tolerable for human task performance in executing a given haptic task. These limits are conservative in the sense that we do not account for any stabilizing approaches from control engineering to counter the impact of the network-induced degradations. Through experimental evaluation with a pursuit tracking task, we show that task performance is most affected by delay on the network and a strong lossy coding scheme. With statistical analysis we show that task performance is significantly decreased for one-way delay higher than 14 ms and strong lossy coding with a deadband parameter higher than 27 %. For the given task, packet loss is found not to affect task performance significantly.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHAVE 2011 - IEEE International Symposium on Haptic Audio-Visual Environments and Games, Proceedings
Pages56-61
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
EventIEEE International Symposium on Haptic Audio-Visual Environments and Games, HAVE 2011 - Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China
Duration: 14 Oct 201117 Oct 2011

Publication series

NameHAVE 2011 - IEEE International Symposium on Haptic Audio-Visual Environments and Games, Proceedings

Conference

ConferenceIEEE International Symposium on Haptic Audio-Visual Environments and Games, HAVE 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityQinhuangdao, Hebei
Period14/10/1117/10/11

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