A high-resolution haptic display that reproduces tactile distribution information on the contact surface between a finger and an object realizes the presentation of the softness of the object and the magnitude and direction of the applied force. In this article, we developed a 32-channel suction haptic display that can reproduce tactile distribution on fingertips with high resolution. The device is wearable, compact, and lightweight, thanks to the absence of actuators on the finger. A FE analysis of the skin deformation confirmed that the suction stimulus interfered less with adjacent stimuli in the skin than when pressing with positive pressure, thus allowing more precise control of local tactile stimuli. The optimal layout with the least error was selected from three configurations dividing 62 suction holes into 32 ports.The suction pressures were determined by calculating the pressure distribution by a real-time finite element simulation of the contact between the elastic object and the rigid finger. A discrimination experiment of softness with different Young's modulus and its JND investigation suggested that the higher resolution of the suction display improved the performance of the softness presentation compared to a 16-channel suction display previously developed by the authors.
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