Haptic feedback and sensory substitution during telemanipulated suturing

Author

Tavakoli, M. ; Patel, R.V. ; Moallem, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Canada

fYear

2005

fDate

18-20 March 2005

Firstpage

543

Lastpage

544

Abstract

Various modes of sensory feedback to the user have the potential to enhance performance in robot-assisted surgery. In this paper, it is hypothesized that substituting or augmenting force feedback by visual representation of the force levels can potentially assist the user in limiting the amount of applied forces. In addition to confirming the above for a telemanipulated suturing task, the results indicate that there is a trade-off between the magnitudes of applied forces and the time required, to complete the task.

Keywords

force feedback; haptic interfaces; medical computing; medical robotics; sensory aids; surgery; telerobotics; augmenting force feedback; haptic feedback; robot-assisted surgery; sensory substitution; telemanipulated suturing; telemanipulated suturing task; visual representation; Biological materials; Force feedback; Haptic interfaces; Instruments; Intelligent robots; Master-slave; Needles; Robot sensing systems; Surgery; Surges;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Eurohaptics Conference, 2005 and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, 2005. World Haptics 2005. First Joint

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2310-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WHC.2005.66

Filename

1407002