Haptics:enabling Remote Surgery

摘要

Maplesoft is assisting Quanser Consulting to develop haptic technology with the aim of taking robot-assisted surgery to the next level. Haptics is a technology that allows human interfaces, such as joysticks, to provide force feedback cues to someone performing the procedure from a distance making him or her feel physically connected to the remote system. Robot-assisted surgery allows precision robotic tools to act like a surgeon's arms, hands and fingers enabling surgeons to reach areas that would otherwise require large incisions. Current haptic interfaces have limited or non-driven degrees of freedom (DOF). Quanser's 5- and 6-DOF haptic interfaces (x, y, z, pitch, roll, yaw) featuring high stiffness, high response and minimal non-linearities meet the requirements for successfully integrating HMIs into real-life biomedical engineering systems (such as medical robotics).