Haptic Display for a Virtual Reality Simulator for Flexible Endoscopy

Körner, Olaf; Männer, Reinhard

Haptic Display for a Virtual Reality Simulator for Flexible Endoscopy

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Date

2002

Authors

Körner, Olaf
Männer, Reinhard

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

A simulation system for flexible endoscopy is described, based on virtual reality techniques. The physician moves the flexible endoscope inside a pipe, in which forces are applied to it. In addition the navigation wheels provide force feedback from the bending of the endoscope s tip. The paper focuses on the special purpose haptic display which actively generates forces to model the complex interaction of physician, endoscope and patient with high accuracy. Moreover fast algorithms for the force simulation in real-time are presented.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/EGVE/EGVE02/013-018
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments
},
editor = {S. Mueller and W. Stuerzlinger
},
title = {{Haptic Display for a Virtual Reality Simulator for Flexible Endoscopy
}},
author = {Körner, Olaf and 
Männer, Reinhard
},
year = {2002
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-530X
},
ISBN = {1-58113-535-1
},
DOI = {/10.2312/EGVE/EGVE02/013-018
}
}