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BluHaptics
Safer and More Efficient Undersea Robotic Operations
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Telerobotics & Haptics |
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It shouldn't be harder to use a robot than to use your hand. We would like to bring some of that sense of touch back from the robot to the hand so it can be used to guide precision operations.
When you control the robot using the haptic device, you actually get force feedback through the same device. Force feedback assists to guide you to places where you should go by pushing you there and preventing you from making mistakes or a collision by pushing back on your hand.
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Haptics
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ROV Applications
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Haptics describes tactile feedback technology that takes advantage of the sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations, or motions to the user.
It does for the sense of touch what computer graphics do for vision.
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The global energy industry is developing ever more sophisticated underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). BluHaptics improves the ROV–pilot interface, making operations safer and more efficient.
Current systems using haptic feedback from contact or force sensors require collisions with sensitive and expensive equipment before the operator receives the input. BluHaptics innovations solve this problem.
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Innovations
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BluHaptics gives the operator a more immersive experience in underwater operations so they get better spatial awareness and a better sensation of tele-presence and therefore make better decisions and operations.
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BluHaptics improves the ROV pilot's operational performance by improving spatial perception of the work area and then providing haptic feedback for maipulator guidance. The system creates a virtual representation based upon a combination of sonar, video, and laser inputs. The perceptive capability of the human pilot is leveraged by the system's 3-D video spatial representation and by the forces and torques fed back to the pilot's hand.
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BluHaptics, Inc.
Intuitive control for marine technology applications |
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Underwater robotics startup Bluhabptics raises cash for hi-tech subsea devices GeekWire, Taylor Soper A new Seattle-based startup spun out of the University of Washington wants to improve the efficiency of subsea operations. Bluhaptics lets customers control complex robotics systems remotely underwater with software that fuses 2D and 3D data into a single display. |
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23 Jun 2015
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UW startup creates underwater robotics with a human touch UW News & Information, Clare LaFond It should be just as easy to use a robotic arm as it is to use your own hand. That's the thinking behind University of Washington startup BluHaptics, which is taking telerobotics — controlling robots from a distance — to a new level: underwater. |
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7 Apr 2014
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Advanced telerobotic underwater manipulation using virtual fixtures and haptic rendering Ryden, F., A. Stewart, and H.J. Chizeck, "Advanced telerobotic underwater manipulation using virtual fixtures and haptic rendering," Proc., Oceans, 23-27 September, San Diego, 8 pp (IEEE, 2013). |
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23 Sep 2013
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As the variety and complexity of tasks carried about by telerobotic systems underwater increases, so does the demand for technology that increases efficiency and safety of operations. We present a novel approach to subsea manipulation that leverages the natural perceptive capability of human pilots. We present a method and framework for generation and rendering of six degree-of-freedom haptic virtual fixtures based on streaming point cloud data captured by an RGB-D sensor. Sensor data is captured at 30 Hz and virtual fixtures are constructed in real-time in parallel on a GPU. The method is applied to two typical underwater telerobotic valve operations by implementing a forbidden-region virtual fixture and a guidance virtual fixture. During operation, real-time haptic feedback is sent to the operator at 1000 Hz. This haptic feedback allows pilots of remotely-operated vehicles to receive sense of touch feedback through the use of non-contact sensors.
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Virtual Haptic Fixture Tools Record of Invention Number: 46853 |
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21 Feb 2014
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Methods for Underwater Haptic Rendering Using Non-contact Sensors Record of Invention Number: 46396 |
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7 Feb 2013
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Virtual Fixtures for Subsea Technology Record of Invention Number: 46397 |
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7 Feb 2013
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UW CoMotion
Providing unparalleled innovation and commercialization support to entrepreneurial University of Washington researchers |
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Biorobotics Laboratory – UW Department of Electrical Engineering
Developing science, technology, and human resources at the interface between robotics and biological movement systems |
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