Virtual Reality Based Medical Training Simulator and Robotic Operation System

In the medical sector learning about the human body and practicing surgeries, the medical students need a real human body which is very costly. Repeatedly practice or undone after practice is almost impossible with the human body. Human anatomy, physiology, etc. subjects are very hard to understand and learn from books and images. Learning surgery on living humans is sometimes unethical and trainee surgeons has to struggle to learn rare surgeries. To solve these problems we use virtual reality (VR) to build a medical training simulator that can provide medical students better understanding and learning about the human body through 3D models of the body. Students can get an interactive learning experience and see how organs work from the molecular level and perform several operations. Since this is a simulation everything a new learner will do can be undone and re-practiced. On the other hand skilled surgeons are not available in all places in the country especially in remote places. A patient who needs the critical surgical treatment has to travel to a city to take the treatment by the expert surgeons. To solve this problem in this project we also connect a robot to our VR based system. A skilled surgeon can operate in the virtual environment from a distant place using the robot. The vision system of the robot can be realized by the surgeon through VR headset and he or she feels like, he or she is present there. Surgeons can control the robotic hands and tools necessary to perform the surgery from the remote place. This will reduce the trouble of patients traveling from remote places to city area for surgery. We implement the demo system in the lab and show some results which indicate the applicability of the proposed system.