SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 Emerging Technologies Audience Award: Shirai, Itoh, Fukamachi, Yamashita and Onoye
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Emerging Technologies Audience Award
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We propose OptRod, to operate multiple various actuators simultaneously by PC’s projected images. A PC generates images as control signals and projects them to the bottom of OptRods by a projector. An OptRod receives the light and converts its brightness into a control signal for the attached actuator. By using multiple OptRods, the PC can simultaneously operate many actuators without any signal lines. Moreover, we can arrange various shape of surface easily by combining multiple OptRods. OptRod supports various functions by replacing the actuator unit connected to OptRod. We implemented a prototype of OptRod and evaluated the accuracy of communication by a projected image. As a result, it is revealed that the system can send information by 30 levels with 99.6% accuracy.
In this paper, we propose OptRod, to operate multiple various actuators simultaneously by PC’s projected images. A PC generates images as control signals and projects them to the bottom of OptRods by a projector. An OptRod receives the light and converts its brightness into a control signal for the attached actuator. By using multiple OptRods, the PC can simultaneously operate many actuators without any signal lines. Moreover, we can arrange various shape of surface easily by combining multiple OptRods. OptRod supports various functions by replacing the actuator unit connected to OptRod.
