Artificial sensory systems
Optical-tactile image conversion systems as reading aids for the blind, and teleoperator tactile displays for remotely controlled prosthetic braces are discussed.
Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Bliss, J. C..
Optical-tactile image conversion systems as reading aids for the blind, and teleoperator tactile displays for remotely controlled prosthetic braces are discussed.
A computer-assisted teleoperator control system for making comparative performance evaluations is described. A local and a remote control station, each with decision-making capability, communicate with each other through a simulated time delay. Supervisory control at three increasingly automatic levels is possible. The highest level of programmed control is facilitated through the ARM language which was developed to permit easily readable program manuscripts to be written and assembled into programs of motions by novice programmers. Experimental results show the advantage of this form of supervisory control with both direct and delayed (3 sec) manipulation tasks. In addition, two systems to measure and reproduce force distributions have been designed. One system reproduces contact on the external surfaces of the remote hand using 21 airjet simulators. Another system reproduces the shape of the contact between object and jaws using 288 piezoelectric (bimorph) stimulators.
Computer assisted teleoperator control system for making comparative performance evaluations of tactile perception
Experimental tests to measure short term memory characteristics of visual and tactile perception related to teleoperator systems
Human perception of multiple-point tactile and visual stimuli
Sensory information processing model for tactile perception using array of airjet and piezoelectric stimulators applicable to display design and nervous system investigation
Experiments and models on tactile perception, visual tracking behavior, and tactile and visual choice reaction time
Tactual perception experiments and models
Human operator describing functions with visual and tactile displays
Immediate recall characteristics of brief tactile stimuli
Effect of display movement on tactile pattern perception
Visual and tactile display for compensatory tracking, noting conditions for minimum error, mean square error, etc
Basic studies on tactile perception and communication - psychological experiments, instrumentation, and equipment
Digital computer for analysis of human perception of spatial-temporal patterns displayed tactually