Surgical audio information as base for haptic feedback in robotic-assisted procedures

A new robotic system for CT-guided percutaneous procedures with haptic feedback

In this paper, we present a new point of view for the conception of what a teleoperated robotic device should be for percutaneous intervention with computed tomography guidance. We focus our attention on very common and widely used medical acts : the radiofrequency ablation and the biopsy procedure. These acts are widely used in manual interventional radiology, but they come up with others prob...

Surgical Skills Training For Robotic Assisted Surgery

The enormous impact of technology in medicine has a remarkable example in the introduction of robotic systems in minimally invasive surgery approximately a decade ago. With relatively small modifications to the commercial systems originally introduced, the field of robotic surgery is now established and growing. Several thousand procedures have been practiced successfully in areas like general ...

Wearable Multi-modal Sensor System for Embedded Audio-haptic Feedback

Wearable sensing technologies give the user the possibility of onsite and real-time measurements, analysis and feedback of movements and postures in everyday behavior, learning and training situations. There are many established motion capturing technologies to support complex movements, but less mobile and wearable systems. One of the key disadvantages of the existing systems is their high com...

Sensorized Tools for Haptic Force Feedback in Computer Assisted Surgery

Methods for haptic feedback in teleoperated robot-assisted surgery

Teleoperated minimally invasive surgical robots can significantly enhance a surgeon's accuracy, dexterity and visualization. However, current commercially available systems do not include significant haptic (force and tactile) feedback to the operator. This paper describes experiments to characterize this problem, as well as several methods to provide haptic feedback in order to improve surgeon...