2010 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Animating a Synergy-Based Deformable Hand Avatar for Haptic Grasping
Authors : Sara Mulatto, Alessandro Formaglio, Monica Malvezzi, Domenico Prattichizzo
Published in: Haptics: Generating and Perceiving Tangible Sensations
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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A 3D deformable hand avatar for virtual grasping using multiple single-contact-point haptic devices is introduced. The proposed technique has two main advantages. First, the whole hand motion is reconstructed by measuring only fingertips positions and using a biomechanical model of the hand along with the postural synergies characterizing grasping actions. Secondly, this technique requires only simple algebraic computations.