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Fady Youssef GREWUS GmbHFady Youssef -
Morten Rothmann Hamsø EngineeringMorten RothmannMorten has a M.Sc. in Business Engineering and a background in disruptive innovations. He is the managing director of Hamsø Engineering that specializes in haptics for HMI-solutions. Together with his team, he focuses on the full application and how to make the design process faster, cheaper, and easier to allow for unique and highly intuitive solutions and satisfactory user experiences. Morten has a broad network within Danish universities and has a technical interest in how things work and come together. He always has the goal in mind and fights to achieve the best solution for the task at hand.
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Anouschka Esselun GREWUS GmbHAnouschka EsselunAnouschka Esselun has been a project manager at https://www.grewus.de/GREWUS GmbH since 2018. She holds a Master of Science from Technical University Braunschweig and has a background in acoustics and digital signal processing. As an engineer for acoustics and haptics, Anouschka supports customers in integrating active haptic feedback, especially in the field of electronic driving, measurements of actuators, and entire applications. Also, she develops individual haptic patterns depending on the specification, actuator, and use case.
OPTIMIZED ELECTRONIC DRIVING OF ACTUATORS: ACTIVE BRAKING AND OVERDRIVE
The optimal electronic driving of haptic actuators is essential to integrating haptics into an application, whether for tactile feedback on smart surfaces, touchscreens, or even seats.
A wide range of haptic experiences can often be achieved in the first step with simple electronic driving signals. However, for the best result, the signal can be further tuned in regards of the actuator and the application. Because in practice, actuators not only have a specific frequency response but also their own response time and decay behavior.
Therefore, targeted electronic driving opens possibilities for compensating the actuator's and application's mechanical effects. The haptic signal can be adjusted in such a way that rise and stop times are significantly shortened, the frequency response is optimized, and, ultimately, a stronger and more precise haptic can be achieved.
In the presentation, the two approaches "Overdrive" and "Active Braking" will be introduced, in which cases they should be used, and how they can be implemented. The effects on haptic feedback will be demonstrated using exemplary measurements. -
Ralf Sandomeer GREWUS GmbHRalf SandomeerEngineer, a specialist in integrating components and modules into customer solutions.
Ralf Sandomeer has 25 years of global business experience focusing on solutions for the automotive and consumer market. Creativity is the basis of every idea; he constantly has new ideas and puts his inspiration into practice. His strength is in designing and producing single components and systems by keeping an eye on the solutions for the customer's machines and applications. Ralf is one of the founders of GREWUS GmbH; for 17 years, he has successfully driven the company with Elisa Santella and the great Team. -
Elisa Santella GREWUS GmbHElisa SantellaElisa Santella (GREWUS GmbH founding member) is Managing Director and responsible for Haptic Key Accounts. GREWUS develops and produces innovative acoustic components and haptic actuators. Together with her team, Elisa supports customers in integrating active haptics. She has been working in the international automotive industry for over 20 years. Furthermore, she is Automotive Working Group chair and Board Member for the Haptics Industry Forum, one of the founding members of the Haptics Alliance, and host & founder of the interACTIVE HAPTICS conference.