CRI: IAD: A Real-Time Haptic Immersive Virtual Environment (RT-HIVE)

我们的目标是创建和验证实时触觉沉浸式虚拟环境（RT-HIVE）的范例，作为扩展，辅助，训练和监测人类感觉运动技能/优势的场所，使用虚拟尸体解剖模拟器（VCAS）进行解剖解剖训练的案例研究。智力优势：能够真实地模仿“感觉”。解剖/手术过程中组织的反应需要开发新的技术和方法，并进一步提高工程/计算领域的知识水平，包括：(i)增强触觉用户界面的新型设计和控制架构；（ii）用于与不规则、非均匀和非线性生物材料进行实时工具交互的分布式架构/算法的进展；（iii）对感觉运动训练的透明监测和定量评估协议的验证。更广泛的影响：这种VCAS模拟器与系统教育计划的集成将彻底改变下一代卫生保健专业人员的培训（从实习护士/医学生到专科外科医生/病理学家）。我们还将VCAS视为研究实验室、教室、应用程序设置或与博物馆展示相结合的重要教学和协作工具。最后，架构、算法和验证工作将在其他此类基于虚拟现实（VR）的模拟器的开发中具有不可估量的价值。

Our goal is to create and validate the paradigm of a Real-Time Haptic Immersive Virtual Environment (RT-HIVE) as a venue to expand, assist, train and monitor human sensorimotor skills/strengths, using the case-study of a Virtual Cadaveric Anatomic Simulator (VCAS) for anatomical dissection training.Intellectual Merit: To realistically mimic the ?feel? and response of tissues during dissection/surgery requires the development of new techniques and methods and furthering the state-of-knowledge in the engineering/computational domains including: (i) novel design- and control-architectures for enhanced Haptic User Interfaces; (ii) advances in distributed architectures/algorithms for real-time tool-interactions with irregular, inhomogeneous and nonlinear biological materials; and (iii) validation of transparent monitoring and quantitative assessment protocols for sensorimotor training. Broader Impact: The integration of such a VCAS simulator with systematic education programs will revolutionize the training of the next generation of health-care professionals (from novitiate nurses/ medical students to specialist surgeons/pathologists). We also see the VCAS as an important teaching and collaboration tool in research labs, classrooms, application settings or in conjunction with museum displays. Finally, the architecture, algorithms and validation efforts would be invaluable in the development of other such Virtual Reality (VR) based simulators.