IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2020 Dec;67(12):3438-3451. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2020.2987603. Epub 2020 Nov 19.
Haptics in teleoperated medical interventions enables measurement and transfer of force information to the operator during robot-environment interaction. This paper provides an overview of the current research in this domain and guidelines for future investigations.
We review current technologies in force measurement and haptic devices as well as their experimental evaluation and influence on user's performance.
Force sensing is moving away from the conventional proximal measurement methods to distal sensing and contact-less methods. Wearable devices that deliver haptic feedback on different body parts are increasingly playing an important role. Performance and accuracy improvement are the widely reported benefits of haptic feedback, while there is a debate on its effect on task completion time and exerted force.
With the surge of new ideas, there is a need for better and more systematic validation of the new sensing and feedback technology, through better user studies and novel methods like validated benchmarks and new taxonomies.
This review investigates haptics from sensing to interfaces within the context of user's performance and the validation procedures to highlight salient advances. It provides guidelines to future developments and highlights the shortcomings in the field.
远程医疗干预中的触觉使操作员能够在机器人与环境交互期间测量和传递力信息。本文提供了该领域当前研究的概述和未来研究的指南。
我们回顾了力测量和触觉设备的当前技术，以及它们的实验评估及其对用户性能的影响。
力感测正在从传统的近端测量方法向远程感测和非接触式方法转变。在不同身体部位提供触觉反馈的可穿戴设备越来越发挥着重要作用。触觉反馈的广泛报道的好处是提高性能和准确性，而对其完成任务时间和施加力的影响存在争议。
随着新想法的涌现，需要通过更好的用户研究和新方法（例如经过验证的基准和新分类法）来更好地和更系统地验证新的传感和反馈技术。
本综述从用户性能和验证程序的角度调查了触觉从传感到接口的各个方面，以突出重要的进展。它为未来的发展提供了指导，并强调了该领域的不足之处。
