
Chapter 10
Tactile feedback interfaces
Mohamed Benali-Koudja, Moustapha Hafez
Contributor: Philippe Fuchs
10.1 INTRODUCTION
The tactile sense is used to characterise the perception and percepts related to touch.
Contact, local form, roughness, texture and chemical and thermal exchanges are the
associated group of variables. Until today, tactile restoration has sparked very little
interest in teleoperation. Actually, most of the robotic teleoperation applications did
not require such a degree of sharpness. In any case, it was necessary to wait for the
concepts of telesymbiotics, telepresence and tele-existence in order to focus and ponder
upon the tactile ...