Haptic feedback for the GPU-based surgical simulator
Centre for Advanced Visualisation and Interaction, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Studies in health technology and informatics In Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 14, Vol. 119 (2006), pp. 523-528
@article{sørensen2006haptic,
title={Haptic feedback for the GPU-based surgical simulator.},
author={S{o}rensen, T.S. and Mosegaard, J.},
journal={Studies in health technology and informatics},
volume={119},
pages={523},
issn={0926-9630},
year={2006}
}
The GPU has proven to be a powerful processor to compute spring-mass based surgical simulations. It has not previously been shown however, how to effectively implement haptic interaction with a simulation running entirely on the GPU. This paper describes a method to calculate haptic feedback with limited performance cost. It allows easy balancing of the GPU workload between calculations of simulation, visualisation, and the haptic feedback.
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