TY - GEN
T1 - Portability and applicability of virtual fixtures across medical and manufacturing tasks
AU - Lin, Henry C.
AU - Mills, Keith
AU - Kazanzides, Peter
AU - Hager, Gregory D.
AU - Marayong, Panadda
AU - Okamura, Allison M.
AU - Karam, Ray
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Virtual fixtures are virtual constraints that enhance human performance in motion tasks. They can either confine and/or guide a user's motion. In this paper, we use a commercially available motion platform to explore the portability and applicability of virtual fixtures and document how people interact with them. Two micromanipulation tasks are analyzed and the effects of similarly designed virtual fixtures are discussed. One task simulates a medical task, retinal vein cannulation, and the other simulates a manufacturing task, fine leads soldering. Preliminary experimental results show that the virtual fixtures increase the accuracy of both medical and manufacturing tasks, lending support to its portability and applicability across unrelated tasks.
AB - Virtual fixtures are virtual constraints that enhance human performance in motion tasks. They can either confine and/or guide a user's motion. In this paper, we use a commercially available motion platform to explore the portability and applicability of virtual fixtures and document how people interact with them. Two micromanipulation tasks are analyzed and the effects of similarly designed virtual fixtures are discussed. One task simulates a medical task, retinal vein cannulation, and the other simulates a manufacturing task, fine leads soldering. Preliminary experimental results show that the virtual fixtures increase the accuracy of both medical and manufacturing tasks, lending support to its portability and applicability across unrelated tasks.
KW - Human machine collaborative systems
KW - Retinal vein cannulation
KW - Virtual fixtures
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U2 - 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641188
DO - 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641188
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33845679718
SN - 0780395069
SN - 9780780395060
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
SP - 225
EP - 230
BT - Proceedings 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2006
T2 - 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2006
Y2 - 15 May 2006 through 19 May 2006
ER -