Haptic Interface Controller Design using Intelligent Techniques

Authors

• Naveen Kumar ¹
• Jyoti Ohri ²

1. Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Kurukshetra, India.
2. National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Kurukshetra, 136119, India

Abstract

Haptic technology has enormous applications in several fields from medical, military, and in our day-to-day life’s products including video games, smartphones, and smart cities. The Haptic Interface Controller (HIC), a key circuitry for interaction between the user and the virtual world, has two main control issues: stability and transparency. These two issues are complementary to each other i.e. emphasis on one will degrade the other and vice-versa. To address this, intelligent control techniques including Genetic Algorithm (GA), Feed-Forward Neural Network (FFNN), and Fuzzy Logic Control (FLC) have been used in design of the HIC. To ensure the performance in real-time, in system parametric uncertainty and delay have been added while designing the HIC so that a balance could be maintained between the two issues.

Keywords

• Fuzzy logic control
• Haptic Interface Controller
• Neural network
• Stability. Transparency
• Genetic Algorithm