Haptic Interactions Subject to Variable Latency.

Model-Mediated Teleoperation (MMT) between a haptic device and a remote or virtual environment uses a local model of the environment to compensate for latency of communication. MMT is often case-specific, and requires underlying latency distributions to be known. We propose a novel approach - which we refer to as the DelayRIM - which uses the time-stepping aspect of a Reduced Interface Model for the environment to render an up-to-date force to the haptic device from the delayed information.