Abstract
In this paper, we propose the Handshake Telephone System using robot hands, through which users can shake hands each other while talking on the telephone. Robot hand has one degree of freedom and is made of silicone rubber in order to get the natural feeling like human's hand. Four fingers are loosely joined together and the elbow joint can be freely rotated by the user's arm motion. A force sensor, which is composed of a rubber tube and an air pressure sensor, is attached at the lower part of the hand. The air pressure sensor measures the air pressure in the tube which changes according to the user's grasping power. The robot hands are connected through ordinary telephone line in parallel with the voice line. In our experiments with the bit-rate of 9600 bps, the transmission delay was around 45 ms which is acceptable for handshake communication. Additionally, we tried a Self Hand-shake Mode to handshake with a virtual partner.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Robot and Human Communication - Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop |
| Place of Publication | Piscataway, NJ, United States |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Pages | 466-471 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - 1997 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1997 6th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, RO-MAN'97 - Sendai, Jpn Duration: 1997 Sept 29 → 1997 Oct 1 |
Other
| Other | Proceedings of the 1997 6th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, RO-MAN'97 |
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| City | Sendai, Jpn |
| Period | 97/9/29 → 97/10/1 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Hardware and Architecture
- Software