@article {3643, title = {A Novel Skin-Stretch Haptic Device for Intuitive Control of Robotic Prostheses and Avatars}, journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters}, volume = {Volume: 4 , Issue: 2 , April 2019 }, year = {2019}, month = {01/2019}, author = {N. Colella and M. Bianchi and G. Grioli and A. Bicchi and M. G. Catalano} } @conference {2453, title = {A Novel Tactile Display for Softness and Texture Rendering in Tele-Operation Tasks}, booktitle = { IEEE World Haptics Conference}, year = {2015}, note = {

This work is supported in part by the European Research Council under the Advanced Grant SoftHands {\textquotedblleft}A Theory of Soft Synergies for a New Generation of Artificial Hands{\textquotedblright} no. ERC-291166, and by the EU FP7 project (no. 601165), {\textquotedblleft}WEARable HAPtics for Humans and Robots (WEARHAP){\textquotedblright}

}, pages = {49-56}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {Chicago, USA, 22-25 June 2015}, abstract = {

Softness\ and\ texture\ high-frequency information represent fundamental haptic properties for every day life activities and environment tactual exploration. While several\ displays\ have been produced to convey either\ softness\ or high-frequency information, there is no or little evidence of systems that are able to reproduce both these properties in an integrated fashion. This aspect is especially crucial in medical\ tele-operated procedures, where roughness and stiffness of human tissues are both important to correctly identify given pathologies through palpation (e.g. in\ tele-dermatology). This work presents a fabric yielding\ display\ (FYD-pad), a fabric-based\ tactiledisplay\ for\ softness\ and\ texturerendering. The system exploits the control of two motors to modify both the stretching state of the elastic fabric forsoftnessrendering\ and to convey\ texture\ information on the basis of accelerometer-based data. At the same time, the measurement of the contact area can be used to control remote or virtual robots. In this paper, we discuss the architecture of FYD-pad and the techniques used for\ softness\ and\ texturereproduction as well as for synthesizing probe-surface interactions from real data.\ Tele-operationexamples and preliminary experiments with humans are reported, which show the effectiveness of the device in delivering both\ softness\ and\ texture\ information.

}, keywords = {Haptics, Robotics}, doi = {10.1109/WHC.2015.7177690}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=\&arnumber=7177690}, author = {M. Bianchi and M. Poggiani and A. Serio and A. Bicchi} } @conference {BSSB, title = {A new fabric based softness display}, booktitle = {Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems}, year = {2010}, note = {

Best Student Paper and Best Paper Award Finalist

}, month = {March 25-16}, pages = {108 - 112}, address = {Waltham,Massachusetts, USA}, keywords = {Haptics, Robotics}, author = {M. Bianchi and A. Serio and E. P. Scilingo and A. Bicchi} } @conference {BSSB09, title = {A new softness display based on bi-elastic fabric}, booktitle = {World Haptics}, year = {2009}, note = {

poster presentation

}, month = {March, 18 - 20}, pages = {382 - 383}, address = {Salt Lake City, USA}, abstract = {

Haptic perception allows to explore and recognize an object by conveying several physical information to mechano-receptors and thermo-receptors lying into our skin throughout the body. The term

}, keywords = {Haptics, Robotics}, author = {M. Bianchi and A. Serio and E. P. Scilingo and A. Bicchi} }