GauntLev: A Wearable to Manipulate Free-floating Objects
summary
A wearable ultrasonic levitation system called GauntLev mounts arrays on the hand to create standing waves and twin traps, enabling capture, movement, transfer, combination and release of millimeter-scale particles either by moving the hand or by phase-steered computer control. Two prototypes, a Gauntlet of Levitation and a Sonic Screwdriver, demonstrate manual, computerized and hybrid maneuvers but produce only limited force, can only capture from acoustically transparent surfaces or with helper plates, and remain bulky; acoustic waveguides from forearm generators are proposed to shrink them.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to Gauntlet
- 1:56Principles of acoustic fields
- 4:16Device prototype and maneuvers
- 5:26Computer-assisted control
- 7:28Future work and conclusions
- 11:16Q&A session
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