Nursing Training System with VR and Haptic Interface

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K13899
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Dynamics/Control
• Research Institution: Toyohashi University of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Terashima Kazuhiko 豊橋技術科学大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (60159043)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: バーチャルリアリティ / ハプティックインターフェイス / 介護訓練 / リハビリ / 医療福祉 / 超高齢社会 / 超スマート社会 / 生活支援

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, basic study has been done on nursing training simulator with Virtual Reality(VR) and Haptic Interface（HI). This paper aims to build innovative nursing training system which can give real-time feedback of force and visual to helper by integrating measurement technique for human motion of nurse, 3D-computer graphics, and novel haptic inteface technology for whole body. This simulator does not need mannequin and human, and then allows human to easily train for various conditions for tall, weight and handicap level. Furthermore, optimum nursing motion can exhibit the helper, and therefore the novel training system developed in this research is an epoch-making trial. The usefulness of the research is shown in simulation and experiments.

Free Research Field

システム制御、　ロボッティクス、　産業自動化、　鋳造設備のオートメーション