Paper Info
Title
Development of a Rigidity and Volume Control Module Using a Balloon Filled with Dilatant Fluid.
Abstract
In this paper, a rigidity and volume-changing device is proposed for presenting the shape and rigidity of a virtual object in the real world. This device comprises a balloon filled with a dilatant fluid and two syringes connected to electric linear actuators. The electric linear actuators enables controlling the volume of the balloon by allowing the user to change the amount of dilatant fluid in the balloon. Moreover, when the amount of fluid (water) contained in the balloon changes, the rigidity of the balloon changes in proportion to the composition of the fluid (ratio of the amount of water and starch). In this study, a prototype system was developed, and the performance of the system was evaluated by measuring the rigidity of the balloon at different volumes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/978-981-13-3194-7_41
Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Virtual reality,Haptic display,Dilatant fluid
Conference
535
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1876-1100
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Saizoh Kojima100.34
Hiroaki Yano241859.03
Hiroo Iwata3634150.15