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Master Thesis: Vibro-tactile feedback in ventricle puncturing during External Ventricular Drain (EVD) procedure
EVD is a common procedure in Neurosurgery, nevertheless its placement is non-ideal in up to 40% of the cases because of lack of hands-on experience of residents. To try and solve the issue we propose a medical simulator that will merge haptic feedback with hardware components. Vibro-tactile feedback has been proven useful in medical simulations and could give a more complete and realistic experience to the training surgeon, either as supplementary information to the force feedback or as stand alone information. In order to feed back the vibro-tactile information to the user, the haptic device has to be instrumentalized with appropriate custom-made hardware.
Keywords: Vibro-tactile feedback, Haptic feedback, Medical robotics, Surgical simulators
This master thesis project will focus on the integration of vibro-tactile feedback in the already existing set up. Your task will be to examine the existing data and determine if it is adequate to be used as vibro-tactile feedback. You can decide to carry out further tests to incorporate the provided data. After the hardware manufacturing to instrumentalize the device and the software tuning to make the information useful and feel natural, you will have to evaluate the prototype with a complete test set up.
This master thesis project will focus on the integration of vibro-tactile feedback in the already existing set up. Your task will be to examine the existing data and determine if it is adequate to be used as vibro-tactile feedback. You can decide to carry out further tests to incorporate the provided data. After the hardware manufacturing to instrumentalize the device and the software tuning to make the information useful and feel natural, you will have to evaluate the prototype with a complete test set up.
Develop and test haptic device instrumentalized with vibro-tactile feedback.
Develop and test haptic device instrumentalized with vibro-tactile feedback.
Sara Lisa Margherita Ettori (PhD candidate): saralisamargherita.ettori@unibas.ch
Sara Lisa Margherita Ettori (PhD candidate): saralisamargherita.ettori@unibas.ch
2025_ MT_Vibrotactilefeedback.pdf
