A virtual environment medical training system for bone drilling with 3 DOF force feedback

Author

Esen, Hasan ; Yano, Kenichi ; Buss, Martin

Author_Institution

Inst. of Autom. Control Eng., Technische Univ. Munchen, Munich, Germany

Volume

4

fYear

2004

fDate

28 Sept.-2 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

3631

Abstract

In this work a virtual reality medical training system (MTS) for bone drilling skill training is presented. For this purpose a novel controller algorithm, two graphical user interfaces for teaching and simulating purposes are developed. A 3 DOF haptic display that is developed in our laboratory is used for force feedback. Several user tests are performed to validate how the developed MTS helps for skill improvement. The effects of adding acoustic feedback and the advantages of using a 3 DOF haptic display instead of 1 DOF are investigated. Preliminary user studies suggest that the proposed system can be a powerful tool for teaching how to drill into bone.

Keywords

biomedical education; computer aided instruction; display devices; force feedback; graphical user interfaces; haptic interfaces; medical computing; virtual reality; 3DOF force feedback; 3DOF haptic display; acoustic feedback; bone drilling skill training; graphical user interfaces; virtual environment medical training system; Bones; Displays; Drilling; Education; Force feedback; Graphical user interfaces; Haptic interfaces; Medical control systems; Virtual environment; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2004. (IROS 2004). Proceedings. 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8463-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.2004.1389979

Filename

1389979