HUMAN INTERFACES: GLOVE


* Current instruments have low dexterity, unnatural interface

* Glove has index, thumb, and wrist flex sensors; wrist rotation sensor

* Calibration procedure defines a mapping between hand positions and robot positions

* Surgical Master for bracing surgeon's arm and providing force and tactile feedback. The master has 7 degrees of freedom.


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Shankar Sastry (sastry@robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu) / September 1996.