Research Article
Plug-and-Play Haptic Interaction for Tactile Internet Based on WebRTC
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-76426-5_5, author={Ken Iiyoshi and Ruth Gebremedhin and Vineet Gokhale and Mohamad Eid}, title={Plug-and-Play Haptic Interaction for Tactile Internet Based on WebRTC}, proceedings={Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. 12th EAI International Conference, INTETAIN 2020, Virtual Event, December 12-14, 2020, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={INTETAIN}, year={2021}, month={5}, keywords={Tactile Internet (TI) Haptic-Audio-Visual (HAV) handshake TI Metadata (TIM) WebRTC Request/response}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-76426-5_5} }- Ken Iiyoshi
Ruth Gebremedhin
Vineet Gokhale
Mohamad Eid
Year: 2021
Plug-and-Play Haptic Interaction for Tactile Internet Based on WebRTC
INTETAIN
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-76426-5_5
Abstract
Tactile Internetpromises a widespread adoption of haptic communication over the Internet. However, as haptic technologies are becoming more diversified and available than ever, the need has arisen for a plug-and-play (PnP) haptic communication over a computer network. This paper presents a system for enabling PnP communication of heterogeneous haptic interfaces. The system is based on three key features: (i) a haptic metadata to make haptic interfaces self-descriptive, (ii) a handshake protocol to automatically exchange haptic metadata between two communicating devices, and (iii) a multimodal (haptic-audio-visual) media communication protocol. Implemented using WebRTC, the PnP communication is evaluated using a Tele-Writing application with two heterogeneous haptic interfaces, namely Geomagic Touch and Novint Falcon. Our findings demonstrate the potential of the system to be employed in any Tactile Internet scenario.
