Features in Telemanipulation for Heart Surgery: Haptic Tasks

摘要

The introduction of master/slave systems for minimally invasive and endoscopic operations showed the limitations and difficulties of the system shortly after the first series of operations. For further improvement and easier handling of the telemanipulator, we evaluated the feedback of force on surgical skills dependent on different surgical experience [1]. In our work we present the value of surgical experience for telemanipulation including force feedback. The amount of force in the dominant and non-dominant hand, its dependency on the surgical experience and necessity for consequences in the design of surgical telemanipulators was not yet under examination in previous studies.