→ INTERACT SPACE EXPERIMENT

→ HAPTICS-1 JOYSTICK
Teleoperation of earthbound robotics with
real-time force-feedback from Space
On-board the ISS, the astronaut will re-use equipment from the previous
Telerobotics & Haptics Lab experiments called Haptics-1 and Haptics-2. For these
experiments a tablet PC and a small force reflective joystick were flown to the ISS
with the goal to evaluate human haptic perception in space and to validate realtime
telerobotic operations from space to ground. During Haptics-1, on the 30th of
December 2014, haptics was first used in the microgravity environment of the ISS.
During Haptics-2, on June 3rd (21:00 CEST) 2015, for the first time in history, a
handshake with force-feedback was performed between two humans, one located
in space and on ground.