Study on the Teleoperation Virtual Liver Surgery Simulation System with Haptic Feedback

Abstract

To improve the viability and effectiveness of virtual surgery simulation in telemedicine development, a teleoperation virtual liver surgery simulation system with haptic feedback is studied in this paper. First, teleoperation system structure is designed. Then, key technologies of the system including remote robot controlling, virtual liver surgery simulation and telecommunication are studied. Experimental platform of virtual liver surgery was established based on vizard 4.0 and Sensable-phantom® desktopTM. Telecommunication system based on the Client/Server mode was established using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. The initial experiment results show that the system can provide a stable force to the human operator and can transmit remote virtual surgery simulation with a real time, which make a perfect foundation for the next implementation of teleoperation virtual liver surgery simulation system.