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、协助、训练和监测人类感觉运动技能/长处的场所，使用虚拟身体解剖模拟器(VCAS)进行解剖训练的案例研究。在解剖/外科手术中组织的反应和反应需要发展新的技术和方法，并促进工程/计算领域的知识状态，包括：(I)用于增强的触觉用户界面的新的设计和控制结构；(Ii)用于与不规则、非均匀和非线性生物材料相互作用的实时工具的分布式结构/算法的进展；以及(Iii)用于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：将这种VCAS模拟器与系统的教育方案相结合，将彻底改变对下一代保健专业人员(从见习护士/医学生到专科外科医生/病理学家)的培训。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、算法和验证工作将对其他基于虚拟现实(VR)的模拟器的开发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.