Haptic Cockpit Controls Halluc 2
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 13 of October , 2009 at 12:01 am
This, of course, is the epically awesome Halluc 2 robot being controlled using an interface that looks a lot like Novint’s also awesome Falcon haptic controller. If you’re not familiar with this style of controller, it’s basically a mouse that’s suspended in space with three arms, allowing you to move it in three dimensions. An added benefit is that the arms can provide an effective degree of force feedback. I tried out a system with pistol grip playing an FPS, and it was pretty sweet (recoil!).
Anyway, the “cockpit” that controls the robot uses two of these haptic controllers, probably one to control the robot directly and one to control other functions. It’s specifically designed for “a complex system with a lot of actuators and sensors,” and with robots trending towards the feature-rich and complicated, or as the Furo website calls the Halluc 2, a “super-tedious multi motor system.”
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