Paper Info
Title
Vibrotactile force feedback system for minimally invasive surgical procedures
Abstract
Lack of adequate force feedback for the surgeon in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) can lead to unnecessary trauma to tissue and adverse events during surgery. The successful use of vibrotactile stimulation to augment overloaded or deficient sensory modes in the human operator in other application areas warrants an investigation into its application in MIS. A vibrotactile force feedback system was designed, and its ability to provide useful force information to subjects performing a simulated MIS task was evaluated. Results showed that the system responds as predicted against the bottom surface of the foot, and that subjects were able to perceive a linear increase in force as linear increase in vibration intensity. Furthermore, vibrotacile force information increased one's sensitivity to tissue contact (1.3 N maximum force -no vibration, 1.0 N maximum force-fine step vibration feedback; p<0.001) and improved one's ability to consistently and accurately differentiate tissue softness in a simulated MIS task. Vibrotactile force feedback in MIS appears to have benefits which can lead to a decrease in trauma to tissue and adverse events.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/ICSMC.2006.385233
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2006. SMC '06. IEEE International Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
force feedback,medical robotics,surgery,tactile sensors,telerobotics,minimally invasive surgical procedure,telerobotic surgery,vibrotactile force feedback system,vibrotactile stimulation
Human operator,Computer science,Medical robotics,Control theory,Physical medicine and rehabilitation,Sensory system,Telerobotics,Haptic technology,Tactile sensor
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3
1062-922X
1-4244-0100-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
22
1.27
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ryan Everett Schoonmaker1221.27
C. G.L. Cao25410.38