An Experimental Feasibility Study of a Hands-on User Interface with Passive Mechanism for Articulated Forceps
Yuichiro Sato, Jun Nakanishi, Yasuhisa Hasegawa · The Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec) · 2017
We have previously proposed a prototype of a hands-on type user interface for intuitive and dexterous manipulation of articulated surgical instruments in transnasal endoscopic neurosurgery. The proposed user interface was designed to provide a surgeon with intuitiveness and safe operation of the surgical instruments based on a passive mechanism. In this paper, we present an experimental feasibility study of the proposed interface to evaluate the usability in performing dexterous manipulation tasks.