Haptic Intelligence
Miscellaneous
2026
Rendering Forces with a Modular Cable System, Motors, and Brakes
We describe the hardware design, force-rendering approach, and evaluation of a new reconfigurable haptic interface consisting of a network of hybrid motor-brake actuation modules that apply forces via cables. Each module contains both a motor and a brake, enabling it to smoothly render active forces up to 6 N using its motor and collision forces up to 186 N using its passive one-way brake. The modular design, meanwhile, allows the system to deliver rich haptic feedback in a flexible number of DoF and widely ranging configurations.
| Author(s): | Jan U. Bartels and Alexander Achberger and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker and Michael Sedlmair |
| Year: | 2026 |
| Month: | March |
| BibTeX Type: | Miscellaneous (misc) |
| Address: | Cologne, Germany |
| How Published: | Extended abstract (3 pages) presented at the German Robotics Conference (GRC) |
| State: | Published |
BibTeX
@misc{Bartels26-GRCEA-Rendering,
title = {Rendering Forces with a Modular Cable System, Motors, and Brakes},
abstract = {We describe the hardware design, force-rendering approach, and evaluation of a new reconfigurable haptic interface consisting of a network of hybrid motor-brake actuation modules that apply forces via cables.
Each module contains both a motor and a brake, enabling it to smoothly render active forces up to 6 N using its motor and collision forces up to 186 N using its passive one-way brake. The modular design, meanwhile, allows the system to deliver rich haptic feedback in a flexible number of DoF and widely ranging configurations.
},
howpublished = {Extended abstract (3 pages) presented at the German Robotics Conference (GRC)},
address = {Cologne, Germany},
month = mar,
year = {2026},
author = {Bartels, Jan U. and Achberger, Alexander and Kuchenbecker, Katherine J. and Sedlmair, Michael},
month_numeric = {3}
}