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Proud mommy to my little buddy 8-26-12
This is a bad idea. Yes, short sales hurt your credit. Also, if you walk away from your house, be prepared for the bank to come after you in some capacity.
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Are you in a recourse state or a non-recourse state? In a recourse state, the bank can come after you for the difference.
What type of loan do you have? With an FHA loan, you may need to get pre-approval for a short sale.
I would get a realtor who is very familiar with short sales. He should be able to handle most of the process for you.
A short sale will hurt your credit. Have you looked into renting out your current house? Also, check out the forums on loansafe.org.
Mommy to DD (July 2009) and DS (Nov 2011)
1. Yes, a short sale hurts your credit.
2. If you try to get financed for a new home while paying your current mortgage, they will require that you can cover BOTH mortgage payments. It can be very hard to get financed while 'stuck' in an underwater home.
3. If you live in a recourse state, if you abandon your old home after buying a new home, the lender can go after your new home and all assets.
Talk to a realtor who specializes in short sales, and a lawyer.
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Wait. You want to move to an area with better schools? Is your only child the one listed in your siggie? If so, you have 5 years before you have to worry about that.
Stay put. When the time comes for school, you will have paid some of the mortgage down and prices will have gone up some. You'll be in a better position then and won't have to walk away from a home you can afford but are choosing to walk away from.
You will need to provide a "financial hardship" to gain approval for a short sale.
If you "Buy & Bail" (purchase a new home then walk away from your old home) you may be sued by the lender for the deficiancy amount.
Yes, they hurt your credit (but if your credit responsible for the most part - let this be the least of your worries - it will rebound quickly)
I'd go to the Making Home Affordable website and gain as much knowledge as I could of the HARP 2.0 program and HAFA short-sale program to see if either would work for you. Knowledge is power.
Also, I think even in a non-recourse state if you buy and bail you can be sued.
"Releasing doves and a sushi station are not basic human rights." -- MollySaysWhat
Exhausting any and all options mentioned by pp's would be my suggestion. You never know what changes and you may end up with other avenues that could work out. While not ideal, renting it out so you can relocate to a more favorable area is another option.
Good luck! :)
Buying a house with the intention of allowing another one to go into foreclosure is actually fraud because it is considered a material misrepresentation.
Additionally, I doubt a mortgage lender has much incentive to offer you a short sale unless you convince them you are willing to go through with a foreclosure if they don't.
And yes, short sales and foreclosures do serious damage to credit scores because in both instances you are not paying what you agreed to pay. And it does matter because it will affect the cost of any near-future financing and insurance. It could even impact your ability to get a job or promotion.
The way I see it, if you want out of the house you really have two reasonable options. One is to make up the 40K difference by paying extra on the mortgage or by seeking out a loan, the other is to rent the house out in the hopes that the value of the home either as a rental or to be sold will increase over time.
The real estate market didn't just crash yesterday, can I ask what you've been doing over the last few years to help cushion this blow? Do you have savings for a DP on a new house?
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Joe Szczupakiewicz made sure that his family's tradition of WIAA Division 1 state swimming championships continued.
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Szczupakiewicz claimed the state crown in the 500-yard freestyle with 4 minutes, 35.93 seconds, which was nearly five seconds ahead of runnerup Andrew Lindstrom of Madison West (4:40.72).
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First state crown
This is the first state championship for the junior, whose sister Emma became the first Muskego girl to win a state swimming title when she won the 100 backstroke in 2010.
"It's a huge milestone for me," Joe said, "and hopefully, there are more down the road."
Muskego head coach Larry Milton said he could see Joe's state title coming.
"He was not going to be denied the number-one spot in the 500," Milton said. "Since the start of the high school season, he has set his goal. He had a great swim. I am so glad for his accomplishment. He worked hard to get it."
Szczupakiewicz had earlier placed third in the 200 freestyle with 1:44.04, and Milton said that race set the stage for his winning 500.
"His 200 free set the tone, and he had that glow in his eyes," the coach said.
Szczupakiewicz was not the only Muskego swimmer who enjoyed a fine performance and helped the team tally 156 points for fifth place in the meet.
Junior Jon Roberts captured second in the 100 freestyle with 46.66 seconds and third in the 50 freestyle at 21.31.
"This kid has been a pleasure to watch," Milton said. "He has the ability to create excitement every time or in any event he swims. His third in the 50 and second in the 100 were well-earned."
Senior Patrick Walsh took fourth in the 500 freestyle with 4:41.68 and sixth in the 200 individual medley at 1:55.32.
"He is by far one of the best athletes I have coached in my 39 years of swimming," Milton said. "He is unselfish and all about team. He has participated every year at the state level and is one of the top 12 qualifiers over his high school career."
The 200 medley relay of Szczupakiewicz, sophomore Thomas Stigler, Walsh and Roberts came in fifth with 1:37.47 and the 400 freestyle group of Walsh, senior Allan Prichard, Szczupakiewicz and Roberts finished seventh with 3:13.07.
Stigler was also 12th in the 100 breaststroke (1:00.2), while sophomore Joe Paquette took 15th in the 100 butterfly (54.2) and 18th in the 200 IM (2:00.7).
"Guys like Paquette and Stigler I felt confident about," Milton said. "They are experienced swimmers, and, as sophomores, they were the key to moving up in the standings. These two guys will be the core in the next two years.
"Prichard is our only other senior on the state squad. He will be a hard person to replace and was a secret weapon all during the year."
Warriors dominant
The state meet ended a tremendous season for Muskego which included an unbeaten record in dual meets, four major invitational championships, both relay and conference meet titles in the Classic 8 and a WIAA sectional crown.
"I do not think you can ask for too much more from a team," Milton said.
The Warriors lose seniors Walsh and Prichard but return the rest of the state team.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JDO-597?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Craig Russell resolved JDO-597. ------------------------------- Resolution: Fixed All tck tests now pass. > PMF : Add "readOnly" setting for better handling of read-only datastores > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: JDO-597 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JDO-597 > Project: JDO > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: api2, api2-legacy, specification > Reporter: Andy Jefferson > Assignee: Andy Jefferson > Fix For: JDO 2 maintenance release 2 > > Attachments: JDOReadOnlyException.patch > > > A user has a datastore that is outside their control and they either don't have permission to write to it, or maybe they have permissions but don't want to write to it. They want a better way of handling this, preventing updates to the datastore. > Propose :- > PMF property (with setter/getter) > javax.jdo.option.ReadOnly - values true | false > JDOReadOnlyException extends JDOUserException > Behaviour :- > When readOnly is set to true :- > Any operation resulting in a creation/modification of an object to be sent to the datastore should throw a JDOReadOnlyException. This may be at commit(), flush(), or alternatively at makePersistent() when using datastore txns, or query.deletePersistentAll(). That is, no change should be made to the datastore contents at all. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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Max you have a beautiful smile. It makes me smile to see your happy face. Spreading joy one twitpic at a time. Good job!
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ahh the life! max has mischief written all over him ;)
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Max, do you ever cry? Cute picture.
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Max is awesome! He seems to enjoy life :)
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Max,old chap,you're getting on there…looking less like an infant. (P.S.strong "heart line"…palmistry)
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DML Competition's curator insight, January 18, 2013 11:25 AM
Bit if a tangent for this post, but as Open Badges aren't well catered for in Google Apps and I have had to explore workarounds for Chromebooks, relevant!
ghbrett's curator insight, January 21, 2013 6:36 PM
Social Media applications have been using badges as recognition and awards for some time now. Lately the location based application like FourSquare have been more aggressive. This reviewer can see how open online courseware could adopt Badges as interim solutions to awarding grades or certificates until there is a more rational accreditation process. Or perhaps, the badges will build enough street cred that we won't need to parchment or sheep skin to prove our worth.
Kate Coleman's comment, January 16, 2013 7:20 PM
are we really opening up the world? that is my biggest issue - #fwp
Peter Bryant's curator insight, January 22, 2013 9:50 AM
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While her classmates were applying for scholarships, investigating colleges and looking into career options her junior year of high school, Sarai Frost was confronting a painful reality.
"I had dreams for my life," she recalled, brown eyes filling with tears. "I wanted to be a lawyer." But as an undocumented immigrant, her future wasn't bright. Though she could attend college, without a Social Security number, getting a job after graduation was out of the question.
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The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act passed in the House 216-198 late Wednesday night. The bill, which has been tossed around Congress since 2001, would grant legal residency to undocumented college students and members of the armed forces.
"I want to be excited, but at the same time I'm trying not to be," said Frost, now a 29-year-old stay-at-home mom. The DREAM Act must still go before the Senate. A vote is scheduled for Thursday morning but it is unlikely to occur because of ongoing Republican filibuster tactics.
All Utah House representatives voted against the bill, including Democrat Rep. Jim Matheson who called the DREAM Act a "piecemeal" approach to the immigration problem. Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz voted no purely on principle ("It's amnesty, and I pledged not to support amnesty"), and Rep. Rob Bishop at least partially because of dissatisfaction with the DREAM Act's legislative process.
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If passed, the act could put an estimated 2.1 million illegal immigrants in the United States on the path to citizenship, according to a recent study by the Migration Policy Institute, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. In Utah, about 23,000 youths and young adults stand to benefit.
Aside from opening a path to legal status for the children of illegal immigrants, though, some argue that, in Utah, the act will have little effect. Utah is one of 11 states that offers illegal immigrants in-state tuition — a practice that, if the bill passes, will go national. If anything, they argue that the act will boost the state's economy. Others worry, however, that, with a green card on the table, illegal immigrants will flood Utah's already overcrowded colleges, costing taxpayers millions.
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Osho Says - "The possibility is there. If you make the effort you will catch the one ray that exists in you, and once you catch the one ray, the sun is not very far; then through the ray you can reach the sun - the ray becomes the path.
So remember: find attention, let it become a continuity in you twenty-four hours a day, whatsoever you do. Eat, but try to be attentive: eat with awareness. Walk, but walk with awareness. Love, but love fully aware. Try!
It cannot become total just in one day, but even if one ray is caught, you will feel a deep fulfillment, because the quality is the same whether you attain to one ray or the whole sun."
11:00AM - 11.15AM - Welcome hugs followed by detailed description of the Chosen Meditation. The Facilitator will chose the appropriate meditation based on the energy of the group.
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Act consciously,
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No thought should be allowed to pass unwitnessed. And then, in the end, there is explosion in which you become totally conscious with no unconsciousness behind."
Question 1
The first thing: There are two kinds of love. C.S. Lewis has
divided love into these two kinds: 'need-love' and 'gift-love'. Abraham Maslow also divides love into two kinds. The first he calls 'deficiency-love' and the second he calls 'being-love'. The distinction is significant and has to be understood.
The 'need-love' or the 'deficiency-love' depends on the other; it is immature love. In fact it is not truly love – it is a need. You use the other, you use the other as a means. You exploit, you manipulate, you dominate. But the other is reduced, the other is almost
destroyed. And exactly the same is being done by the other. He is trying to manipulate you to dominate you, to possess you, to use you. To use another human being is very unloving. So it only appears like love; it is a false coin. But this is what happens to almost ninety-nine per cent of people because the first lesson of love that you learn is in your childhood.
A child is born, he depends on the mother. His love towards the mother is a 'deficiency-love': he needs the mother, he cannot survive without the mother. He loves the mother because mother is his LIFE. In fact, there is no love; he will love any woman – whosoever will protect him, whosoever will help him to survive, whosoever will fill up his need. The
mother is a sort of food that he eats. It is not only milk that he gets from the mother, it is love also – and that too is a need.
Millions of people remain childish all their lives; they never grow up. They grow in age, but they never grow in their minds; their psychology remains juvenile, immature. They are always needing love. They are hankering for it like food. Man becomes mature the moment he starts loving rather than needing. He starts overflowing, sharing; he starts giving. The emphasis is totally different. With the first, the emphasis is on how to get more. With the second, the emphasis is on how to give, how to give more, and how to give unconditionally. This is growth, maturity, coming to you.
A mature person gives. Only a mature person can give, because only a mature person has it. Then love is not dependent. Then you can be loving whether the other is
or is not. Then love is not a relationship, it is a state.
What will happen if all the disciples disappear and only I am here? Do you think there will be any change? What happens when a flower blooms in a deep forest with nobody to appreciate it, nobody to know its fragrance, nobody to pass a comment and say 'beautiful',
nobody to taste its beauty, its joy, nobody to share – what happens to the flower? It dies? It suffers? It becomes panicky? It commits suicide? It goes on blooming, it simply goes on blooming. It does not make any difference whether somebody passes by or not; it is irrelevant. It goes on spreading its fragrance to the winds.
It goes on offering its joy to God, to the whole. If I am alone, then too, I will be as loving as when I am with you. It is not you who are creating my love. If you were creating my love, then naturally, when you are gone, my love will be gone. You are not pulling my love out – I am showering it on you: it is 'gift-love', it is 'being-love'.
And I don't really agree with C.S. Lewis and Abraham Maslow. The first love that they call 'love' is not love, it is a need. How can a need be love? Love is a luxury. It is abundance. It is having so much life that you don't know what to do with it, so you share. It is having so many songs in your heart that you have to sing them – whether anybody listens or not
is not relevant. If nobody listens, then also you will have to sing it, you will have to dance your dance.
The other can have it, the other can miss it – but as far as you are concerned, it is flowing, it is overflowing. Rivers don't flow for you; they are flowing whether you are there or not. They don't flow for your thirst, they don't flow for your thirsty fields; they are simply flowing there. You can quench your thirst, you can miss – that's up to you. The river was not really flowing for you, the river was just flowing. It is accidental that you can get the water for your field, it is accidental that you can get water for your needs.
A Master is a river, the disciple is accidental. The Master is flowing; you can partake, you can enjoy, you can share his being. You can be overwhelmed by him, but he is not FOR you. He is not flowing for you in particular, he is simply flowing. Remember this. And
this I call mature love, real love, authentic love, true love.
When you depend on the other there is always misery. The moment you depend, you start feeling miserable, because dependence is slavery. Then you start taking revenge in subtle ways, because the person you have to depend upon becomes powerful over you. Nobody likes anybody to be powerful over them, nobody likes to be dependent; because dependence kills freedom, and love cannot flower in dependence. Love is a flower of freedom – it needs space, it needs absolute space.
The other has not to interfere with it. It is very delicate. When you are dependent, the other will certainly dominate you, and you will try to dominate the other. That's the fight that goes on between so-called lovers; they are intimate enemies – continuously fighting. Husbands and wives – what are they doing? Loving is very rare; fighting is the rule, loving is an exception. And in every way they try to dominate – even through love they try to dominate. If the husband asks the wife, the wife denies – she is reluctant. She is very miserly: she gives, but very reluctantly; she wants you to wave your tail around her. And so is the case with the husband. When the wife is in need and asks him, the husband
says that he is tired. In the office there was too much work, 'really overworked', and he would like to go to sleep.
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"HAPTICS"-- a technology that adds the sense of touch to virtual environment .Haptic interfaces allow the user to feel as well as to see virtual objects on a computer, and so we can give an illusion of touching surfaces, shaping virtual clay or moving objects around. The sensation of touch is the brain's most effective learning mechanism --more effective than seeing or hearing—which is why the new technology holds so much promise as a teaching tool. Haptic technology is like exploring the virtual world with a stick. If you push the stick into a virtual balloon push back .The computer communicates sensations through a haptic interface –a stick, scalpel, racket or pen that is connected to a force-exerting motors.
With this technology we can now sit down at a computer terminal and touch objects that exist only in the "mind" of the computer.By using special input/output devices (joysticks, data gloves, or other devices), users can receive feedback from computer applications in the form of felt sensations in the hand or other parts of the body. In combination with a visual display, haptics technology can be used to train people for tasks requiring hand-eye coordination, such as surgery and space ship maneuvers. In this paper we explicate how sensors and actuators are used for tracking the position and movement of the haptic device moved by the operator. We mention the different types of force rendering algorithms. Then, we move on to a few applications of Haptic Technology. Finally we conclude by mentioning a few future developments.
Introduction 1 What is Haptics?
Haptics refers to sensing and manipulation through touch. The word comes from the Greek 'haptesthai', meaning 'to touch'. The history of the haptic interface dates back to the 1950s, when a master-slave system was proposed by Goertz (1952). Haptic interfaces were established out of the field of tele- operation, which was then employed in the remote manipulation of radioactive materials. The ultimate goal of the tele-operation system was "transparency". That is, an user interacting with the master device in a master-slave pair should not be able to distinguish between using the master controller and manipulating the actual tool itself. Early haptic interface systems were therefore telerobotic applications. developed purely for
Working of Haptic Devices
Architecture for Haptic feedback:
Basic architecture for a virtual reality application incorporating visual, auditory, and haptic feedback. 1 • Simulation engine: Responsible for computing the virtual environment's behavior over time. 1 • Visual, auditory, and haptic rendering algorithms: Compute • Transducers: Convert visual, audio, and force signals from the computer into a form the operator can perceive. 1 • Rendering: the virtual environment's graphic, sound, and force responses toward the user.
Process by which desired sensory stimuli are imposed on the user to convey information about a virtual haptic object.
The human operator typically holds or wears the haptic interface device and perceives audiovisual feedback from audio (computer speakers, headphones, and so on) and visual displays (a computer screen or headmounted display, for example). Audio and visual channels feature unidirectional information and energy flow (from the simulation engine towards the user) whereas, the haptic modality exchanges information and energy in two directions, from and toward the user. This bi directionality is often referred to as the single most important feature of the haptic interaction modality. System architecture for haptic rendering: An avatar is the virtual representation of the haptic interface through which the user physically interacts with the virtual environment. Haptic-rendering algorithms compute the correct interaction forces between the haptic interface representation inside the virtual environment and the virtual objects populating the environment. Moreover, haptic rendering algorithms ensure that the haptic device correctly renders such forces on the human operator.
1.)Collision-detection algorithms detect collisions between objects and avatars in the virtual environment and yield information about where, when, and ideally to what extent collisions (penetrations, indentations, contact area, and so on) have occurred. 2.) Force-response algorithms compute the interaction force between avatars and virtual objects when a collision is detected. This force approximates as closely as possible the contact forces that would normally arise during contact between real objects. Hardware limitations prevent haptic devices from applying the exact force computed by the force-response algorithms to the user. 3.) Control algorithms command the haptic device in such a way that minimizes the error between ideal and applicable forces. The discrete-time nature of the haptic- rendering algorithms often makes this difficult. The force response algorithms' return values are the actual force and torque vectors that will be commanded to the haptic device. Existing haptic rendering techniques are currently based upon two main principles: "point-interaction" or "ray-based". In point interactions, a single point, usually the distal point of a probe, thimble or stylus employed for direct interaction with the user, is employed in the simulation of collisions. The point penetrates the virtual objects, and the depth of indentation is calculated between the current point and a point on the
surface of the object. Forces are then generated according to physical models, such as spring stiffness or a spring-damper model. In ray-based rendering, the user interface mechanism, for example, a probe, is modeled in the virtual environment as a finite ray. Orientation is thus taken into account, and collisions are determined between the simulated probe and virtual objects. Collision detection algorithms return the intersection point between the ray and the surface of the simulated object. Computing contact-response forces: Humans perceive contact with real objects through sensors (mechanoreceptors) located in their skin, joints, tendons, and muscles. We make a simple distinction between the information these two types of sensors can acquire. 1.Tactile information refers to the information acquired through sensors in the skin with particular reference to the spatial distribution of pressure, or more generally, tractions, across the contact area. To handle flexible materials like fabric and paper, we sense the pressure variation across the fingertip. Tactile sensing is also the basis of complex perceptual tasks like medical palpation, where physicians locate hidden anatomical structures and evaluate tissue properties using their hands. 2.Kinesthetic information refers to the information acquired through the sensors in the joints. Interaction forces are normally perceived through a combination of these two. To provide a haptic simulation experience, systems are designed to recreate the contact forces a user would perceive when touching a real object. There are two types of forces: 1.Forces due to object geometry. 2.Forces due to object surface properties, such as texture and friction. Geometry-dependent force-rendering algorithms: The first type of force-rendering algorithms aspires to recreate the force interaction a user would feel when touching a frictionless and textureless object. Force-rendering algorithms are also grouped by the number of Degrees-of-freedom (DOF) necessary to describe the interaction force being rendered. Surface property-dependent force-rendering algorithms:
All real surfaces contain tiny irregularities or indentations. Higher accuracy, however, sacrifices speed, a critical factor in real-time applications. Any choice of modeling technique must consider this tradeoff. Keeping this trade-off in mind, researchers have developed more accurate haptic-rendering algorithms for friction. In computer graphics, texture mapping adds realism to computergenerated scenes by projecting a bitmap image onto surfaces being rendered. The same can be done haptically.
Controlling forces delivered through haptic interfaces:
Once such forces have been computed, they must be applied to the user. Limitations of haptic device technology, however, have sometimes made applying the force's exact value as computed by force-rendering algorithms impossible. They are as follows: 1 2 • Haptic interfaces can only exert forces with limited magnitude and not equally well in all directions • Haptic devices aren't ideal force transducers. An ideal haptic device would render zero impedance when simulating movement in free space, and any finite impedance when simulating contact with an object featuring such impedance characteristics. The friction, inertia, and backlash present in most haptic devices prevent them from meeting this ideal. 3 • A third issue is that haptic-rendering algorithms operate in discrete time whereas users operate in continuous time.
Finally, haptic device position sensors have finite resolution. Consequently, attempting to determine where and when contact occurs always results in a quantization error. It can create stability problems. All of these issues can limit a haptic application's realism. High servo rates (or low servo rate periods) are a key issue for stable haptic interaction.
Haptic Devices
Types of Haptic devices: There are two main types of haptic devices:
1 • Devices that allow users to touch and manipulate 3-dimentional virtual objects. 2 • Devices that allow users to "feel" textures of 2-dementional objects. Another distinction between haptic interface devices is their intrinsic mechanical behavior. Impedance haptic devices simulate mechanical impedance—they read position and send force. Simpler to design and much cheaper to produce, impedancetype architectures are most common. Admittance haptic devices simulate mechanical admittance—they read force and send position. Admittance-based devices are generally used for applications requiring high forces in a large workspace. LOGITECH WINGMAN FORCE FEEDBACK MOUSE It is attached to a base that replaces the mouse mat and contains the motors used to provide forces back to the user. Interface use is to aid computer users who are blind or visually disabled; or who are tactile/Kinesthetic learners by providing a slight resistance at the edges of windows and buttons so that the user can "feel" the Graphical User Interface (GUI). This technology can also provide resistance to textures in computer images, which enables computer users to "feel" pictures such as maps and drawings. PHANTOM: The PHANTOM provides single point, 3D forcefeedback to the user via a stylus (or thimble) attached to a moveable arm. The position of the stylus point/fingertip is tracked, and resistive force is applied to it when the device
comes into 'contact' with the virtual model, providing accurate, ground referenced force feedback. The physical working space is determined by the extent of the arm, and a number of models are available to suit different user requirements. The phantom system is controlled by three direct current (DC) motors that have sensors and encoders attached to them. The number of motors corresponds to the number of degrees of freedom a particular phantom system has, although most systems produced have 3 motors. The encoders track the user's motion or position along the x, y and z coordinates the motors track the forces exerted on the user along the x, y and z-axis. From the motors there is a cable that connects to an aluminum linkage, which connects to a passive gimbals which attaches to the thimble or stylus. A gimbal is a device that permits a body freedom of motion in any direction or suspends it so that it will remain level at all times. Used in surgical simulations and remote operation of robotics in hazardous environments
Cyber Glove:
Cyber Glove can sense the position and movement of the fingers and wrist. The host basic Cyber and Glove an system includes version one of CyberGlove, its
instrumentation unit, serial cable to connect to your computer, executable VirtualHand graphic hand model display and calibration software. The CyberGlove has a software programmable switch and LED on the wristband to permit the system software developer to provide the CyberGlove wearer with additional input/output capability. With the appropriate software, it can be used to interact with systems using hand gestures, and when combined with a tracking device to determine the hand's position in space, it can be used to manipulate virtual objects.
Cyber Grasp: The Cyber Grasp is a full hand force-feedback exo
skeletal device, which is worn over the CyberGlove.
CyberGrasp consists of a lightweight mechanical assembly, or exoskeleton, that fits over a motion capture glove. About 20 flexible semiconductor sensors are sewn into the fabric of the glove measure hand, wrist and finger movement. The sensors send their readings to a computer that displays a virtual hand mimicking the real hand's flexes, tilts, dips, waves and swivels. The same program that moves the virtual hand on the screen also directs machinery that exerts palpable forces on the real hand, creating the illusion of touching and grasping. A special computer called a force control unit calculates how much the exoskeleton assembly should resist movement of the real hand in order to simulate the onscreen action. Each of five actuator motors turns a spool that rolls or unrolls a cable. The cable conveys the resulting pushes or pulls to a finger via the exoskeleton.
Medical training applications: Such training systems use the Phantom's force display capabilities to let medical trainees
experience and learn the subtle and complex physical interactions needed to become skillful in their art. A computer based teaching tool has been developed using haptic technology to train veterinary students to examine the bovine reproductive tract, simulating rectal palpation. The student receives touch feedback from a haptic device while palpating virtual objects. The teacher can visualize the student's actions on a screen and give training and guidance.
Collision Detection:Collision detection is a fundamental problem in computer animation, physically-based modeling, geometric modeling, and robotics. In these fields, it is often necessary to compute distances between objects or find intersection regions.
In particular, I have investigated the computation of global and local penetration depth, distance fields, and multiresolution hierarchies for perceptually-driven fast collision detection. These proximity queries have been applied to haptic rendering and rigid body dynamics simulation. Minimally Invasive Surgery: The main goal of this project is to measure forces and torques exerted by the surgeon during minimally-invasive surgery in order to optimize haptic feedback. A standard da Vinci tool affixed with a 6 DOF force/torque transducer will be used to perform basic surgical procedures and the forces applied by the tool will be recorded and analyzed. This will help determine in which degrees of freedom forces are most commonly applied.
Stroke patients:
Stroke patients who face months of tedious rehabilitation to regain the use of impaired limbs may benefit from new haptics systems -- interfaces that add the sense of touch to virtual computer environments -- in development at the University of Southern California's Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC).
The new systems, being designed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Viterbi School of Engineering and the Annenberg School for Communication, are challenging stroke patients to grasp, pinch, squeeze, throw and push their way to recovery.
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Prostate cancer is the third leading cause of death among American men, resulting in approximately 31,000 deaths annually. A common treatment method is to insert needles into the prostate to distribute radioactive seeds, destroying the cancerous tissue. This procedure is known as brachytherapy.
The prostate itself and the surrounding organs are all soft tissue. Tissue deformation makes it difficult to distribute the seeds as planned. In our research we have developed a device to minimize this deformation, improving brachytherapy by increasing the seed distribution accuracy.
Removal of lens segment: surgeons complete removal of the lens segments in the same way: by holding them at the mouth of the laser/aspiration probe using vacuum and firing the laser to fragment them for aspiration. However, several surgeons have developed different techniques for nuclear disassembly. These include: Nuclear prechop. This technique, developed by Dr. Dodick himself, involves inserting two Dodick-Kallman Choppers under the anterior capsulotomy, 180? apart and out to the equator of the lens. The surgeon rotates the choppers downward and draws them towards each other, bisecting the lens inside the capsular bag. A similar maneuver then bisects each half. Using the irrigation
probe to support the segments during removal is helpful.
Settings: Aspiration: 275 to 300 mmHg; Air infusion: 80 to 100 mmHg; Laser pulses: 1 Hz. Wehner backcracking. This technique, developed by Wolfram Wehner, M.D., uses the Wehner Spoon, an irrigating handpiece that resembles a shovel at the tip. The surgeon lifts the nucleus using the laser/aspiration probe, inserts the Wehner spoon underneath, and uses the two probes to backcrack the nucleus. The Wehner spoon provides support during removal of the lens segments. Settings: Aspiration: 275 mmHg; Air infusion: 95 mmHg; Laser pulses: 3 Hz.
Intelligent machines:
The Centre for Intelligent Machines is an inter-departmental inter-faculty research group which was formed to facilitate and promote research on intelligent systems.
Intelligent systems and machines are capable of adapting their behavior by sensing and interpreting their environment, making decisions and plans, and then carrying out those plans using physical actions. The mission of CIM is to excel in the field of intelligent machines, stressing basic research, technology development, and education. CIM seeks to advance the state of knowledge in such domains as robotics, automation, artificial intelligence, computer vision, systems and control theory, and speech recognition. This is being achieved by collaborative efforts involving researchers with very different interests - CIM faculty and students come from the School of
Computer Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. It is this diversity of interests along with the spirit of collaboration which forms the driving force behind this dynamic research community. Tactile slip display:
Human fingers are able to manipulate delicate objects without either dropping or breaking them, but lose this ability to a certain degree when using a teleoperated system. One reason for this is that human fingers are equipped with sensors that tell us when our fingerprints at the edge of the contact area start to come off the object we are holding, allowing us to apply the minimum force necessary to hold the object. While several other researchers have built synthetic skins for their robot fingers that work in a similar way to human fingerprints, a tactile haptic device is needed to display these sensations to a human using a tele-operated system. For this purpose we have designed the 2 degree of freedom Haptic Slip Display. We have conducted psychophysical experiments validating the device design and demonstrating that it can improve user performance in a delicate manipulation task in a virtual environment. Gaming technology: Flight Simulations: Motors and actuators push, pull, and shake the flight yoke, throttle, rudder pedals, and cockpit shell, replicating all the tactile and kinesthetic cues of real flight. Some examples of the simulator's haptic capabilities include resistance in the yoke from pulling out of a hard dive, the shaking caused by stalls, and the bumps felt when rolling down concrete runway. These flight simulators look and feel so real that a pilot who successfully completes training on a top-of-the-line Level 5 simulator can immediately start flying a real commercial airliner.
Today, all major video consoles have built-in tactile feedback capability. Various sports games, for example, let you feel bone-crushing tackles or the different vibrations caused by skateboarding over plywood, asphalt, and concrete. Altogether, more than 500 games use force feedback, and more than 20 peripheral manufacturers now market in excess of 100 haptics hardware products for gaming. Mobile Phones: Samsung has made a phone, which vibrates, differently for different callers. Motorola too has made haptic phones. Cars: For the past two model years, the BMW 7 series has contained the iDrive (based on Immersion Corp's technology), which uses a small wheel on the console to give haptic feedback so the driver can control the peripherals like stereo, heating, navigation system etc. through menus on a video screen. The firm introduced haptic technology for the X-by-Wire system and was showcased at the Alps Show 2005 in Tokyo. The system consisted of a "cockpit" with steering, a gearshift lever and pedals that embed haptic technology, and a remote-control car. Visitors could control a remote control car by operating the steering, gearshift lever and pedals in the cockpit seeing the screen in front of the cockpit, which is projected via a camera equipped on the remote control car. Robot Control: For navigation in dynamic environments or at high speeds, it is often desirable to provide a sensor-based collision avoidance scheme onboard the robot to guarantee safe navigation. Without such a collision avoidance scheme, it would be difficult for the (remote) operator to prevent the robot from colliding with obstacles. This is primarily due to (1) limited information from the robots' sensors, such as images within a restricted viewing angle without depth information, which is insufficient for the user's full perception of the environment in which the robot moves, and (2) significant delay in the communication channel between the operator and the robot.
Experiments on robot control using haptic devices have shown the effectiveness of haptic feedback in a mobile robot tele-operation system for safe navigation in a shared autonomy scenario.
Future Enhancements:
Force Feedback Provided In Web Pages: This underlying technology automatically assigns "generic touch
sensations" to common Web page objects, such as hyperlinks, buttons, and menus.
Virtual Brailee Display:
The Virtual Braille Display (VBD) project was created to investigate the possibility of using the lateral skin stretch technology of the STReSS tactile display for Braille. The project was initially conducted at VisuAide inc. and is now being continued in McGill's Haptics Laboratory.
Haptic torch for the blind: The device, housed in
a torch, detects the distance to objects, while a turning dial on which the user puts his thumb indicates the changing distance to an object. The pictured device was tested and found to be a useful tool.
CONCLUSION: Haptic is the future for online computing and e-commerce, it will enhance the shopper experience and help online shopper to feel the merchandise without leave their home. Because of the increasing applications of haptics, the cost of the haptic devices will drop in future. This will be one of the major reasons for commercializing haptics. With many new haptic devices being sold to industrial companies, haptics will soon be a part of a person's normal computer interaction.
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