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Virtual fixture

A virtual fixture is an overlay of augmented sensory information upon a user's perception of a real environment in order to improve human performance in both direct and remotely manipulated tasks. Developed in the early 1990s by Louis Rosenberg at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Virtual Fixtures was a pioneering platform in virtual reality…

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Virtual fixture

Nodes12
Edges11
Triples27
Avg. degree1.83
Density0.166667
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Virtual fixture

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related to history · 7
Virtual fixture → Because, Fitts Law, Louis Rosenberg, The, To, USAF Armstrong Labs, Virtual Fixtures
related to Virtual fixture control law · 6
Virtual fixture → If, In, It, The, This, Thus
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Virtual fixture → Air Force, However, The, To, When
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Virtual fixture → analogy with a real physical fixture such as a ruler is often used, overlay of augmented sensory information upon a user's perception of a real environment in order to improve human performance in both direct and remotely manipulated tasks

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Virtual fixtureis aoverlay of augmented sensory information upon a user's perception of a real environment in order to improve human performance in both direct and remotely manipulated tasks0.90text
Virtual fixtureis aanalogy with a real physical fixture such as a ruler is often used0.90text
a ruler is often usedinstance ofTo understand what a virtual fixture is an analogy with a real physical fixture0.80text
drawing a straight line on a piece of paper free-hand is a task that most humans are unable to perform with good accuracyinstance ofA simple task0.80text
high speedinstance ofA simple task0.80text
a ruler allows the task to be carried out quicklyinstance ofthe use of a simple device0.80text
with good accuracyinstance ofthe use of a simple device0.80text
a force or position it must first be transformed to an input velocityinstance ofIf the input from the user is of another form0.80text
by for example scaling or differentiating.Thus the control signal uinstance ofIf the input from the user is of another form0.80text
Virtual fixturerelated to ConceptThe0.60section
Virtual fixturerelated to ConceptTo0.60section
Virtual fixturerelated to ConceptHowever0.60section

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