SBIR Phase I: Haptic tactile display

SBIR 第一阶段：Haptic 触觉显示器

• 批准号: 1721838
• 负责人: Romaneh Jalilian
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: Tactile Analogics LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-01 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1721838&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Haptic; tactile; display

The broader impact/commercial potential of this project consists of providing a new means for visually impaired people to understand information via haptics. In order to accomplish this, the company is creating micro actuators and refreshing displays that will permit the blind to understand visual information quickly. One major potential societal benefit will be directly related to visually impaired people and blind, who have a marked difficulty in learning geometry, algebra and calculus, and other visual disciplines. Tactile Analogics? devices are intended to help them to understand such concepts by representing shapes/ forms in a fast-refreshing tactile way, helping to overcome that learning obstacle. Furthermore, the commercial success will be in producing and selling such devices (for different market sub-segments). Tactile Analogics expects market adoption of 37% of USA blind students, 90% of blind educational centers, 40% of museums, and 7% of blind adults to use it in as a working tool. In collaboration with Sharp, Tactile Analogics will explore also a functional digital display with micro-valves embedded, the market will widen to give haptics experience to mobile users in a 2-sense data outputs via sight and tactile means. The company expects to generate revenues of over $200m after year five of production. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is attacking the problem that visually impaired people have to not just learn, but to understand images and visual information, with impacts on their quality of daily life. Current cost of producing a single pinned printed page is about $20 USD per page and takes about 2 weeks to prepare and print. Tactile Analogics? devices will offer a rapid fast-refreshing speed of up to 30 times per second, allowing the creation of frames according to the image that they are representing. This solution will enable blind to not depend on pinned paper to understand images or shapes. In general, this is a haptic way to retrieve information and technically not limited to blind people. The opportunity is related with providing a new type of information retrieval where sight is not needed. The research objectives are to overcome design problems of our proven technology of micro-valves, where Tactile Analogics would be able to offer a standard tablet-size display for an area of 15cm by 20cm (2700 pneumatic valves). Furthermore, the air chamber and the information conversion-actuator manipulation are two other problems to overcome. The anticipated results are the allocation of not just the 2700 pneumatic micro-valves, but also even for larger displays. Once the technology is proven, it will allow a variety of applications across multiple industries, with the possibility of creating many commercially successful product lines.

该项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力包括为视觉受损的人提供一种新的手段，以通过触觉理解信息。为了实现这一目标，该公司正在创建微执行器和令人耳目一新的显示器，这将使盲人能够快速了解​​视觉信息。 一个主要的潜在社会利益将与视力障碍的人和盲人直接相关，他们在学习几何学，代数和微积分以及其他视觉学科方面有明显的困难。 触觉类比？设备旨在通过以快速恢复的触觉方式来帮助他们理解这种概念，从而有助于克服学习障碍。此外，商业上的成功将是生产和销售此类设备（对于不同的市场子细分市场）。 触觉类似物预计将采用37％的美国盲人学生，90％的盲人教育中心，40％的博物馆和7％的盲人成年人将其用作工作工具。通过与Sharp合作，触觉类似物还将与嵌入的微型阀门探索功能性数字显示，市场将扩大，以通过视觉和触觉手段以2秒的数据输出为移动用户提供触觉体验。该公司预计将产生超过2亿美元的生产收入。 这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）I阶段项目正在攻击视力障碍的人不仅要学习的问题，而且要了解图像和视觉信息，并影响其日常生活质量。 当前生产单个打印页面的成本约为每页20美元，大约需要2周才能准备和打印。 触觉类比？设备将提供每秒最高30次的快速快速速度，从而可以根据其代表的图像来创建帧。 该解决方案将使盲人不依赖固定纸来理解图像或形状。通常，这是检索信息，从技术上不限于盲人的一种触觉方式。 机会与提供不需要视线的新型信息检索有关。 研究目标是要克服我们久经考验的微阀技术技术的设计问题，在那里，触觉类似物将能够为15厘米到20厘米的面积（2700气动阀）提供标准的平板电脑尺寸显示屏。 此外，空气室和信息转换传动机操纵是其他两个问题。 预期的结果不仅是2700个气动阀门的分配，而且还包括更大的显示器。 一旦证明了该技术，它将允许多个行业的各种应用程序，并可能创建许多商业上成功的产品线。