MagGlove: A Haptic Glove with Movable Magnetic Force for Manipulation Learning

TL;DR

MagGlove is a novel haptic glove utilizing a movable magnetic mechanism with a linear motor, offering high responsiveness, safety, and adaptability for manipulation learning tasks.

Contribution

Introduction of MagGlove, a compact, safe, and responsive haptic glove with a movable magnet mechanism for improved manipulation learning.

Findings

Achieves finger motion in manipulation tasks

Provides adaptable support based on user learning levels

Demonstrates high responsiveness and safety

Abstract

Recently, haptic gloves have been extensively explored for various practical applications, such as manipulation learning. Previous glove devices have different force-driven systems, such as shape memory alloys, servo motors and pneumatic actuators; however, these proposed devices may have difficulty in fast finger movement, easy reproduction, and safety issues. In this study, we propose MagGlove, a novel haptic glove with a movable magnet mechanism that has a linear motor, to solve these issues. The proposed MagGlove device is a compact system on the back of the wearer's hand with high responsiveness, ease of use, and good safety. The proposed device is adaptive with the modification of the magnitude of the current flowing through the coil. Based on our evaluation study, it is verified that the proposed device can achieve finger motion in the given tasks. Therefore, MagGlove can provide flexible support tailored to the wearers' learning levels in manipulation learning tasks.