The OVGU Haptic Communication Testbed (OVGU-HC)

In this paper, we present the Haptic Communication Testbed at the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg (OVGU-HC). As intended to be an "end-to-end" experimentation platform, the OVGU-HC covers data-driven experiment design for haptic applications across domains. It is targeting small wireless networks as well as long-distance teleoperation scenarios over the Internet. The key benefits of the data-driven approach are the eased experiment definition in a generalized language, automatic scheduling, and deployment organized by a centralized management system. Our contributions are, in particular, the presentation of the overall OVGU-HC structure, detailing the data-driven API for application development, and giving implementation guidelines for draft IEEE 1918.1 haptic communication protocols. Furthermore, we quantify the overhead that is introduced by our framework within a case study.