Enhanced location tracking in sensor fusion-assisted virtual reality micro-manipulation environments.
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SUBMITTER: Prieto Prada JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8714085 | biostudies-literature | 2021
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Enhanced location tracking in sensor fusion-assisted virtual reality micro-manipulation environments.
Prieto Prada John David JD Im Jintaek J Oh Hyondong H Song Cheol C
PloS one 20211228 12
Virtual reality (VR) technology plays a significant role in many biomedical applications. These VR scenarios increase the valuable experience of tasks requiring great accuracy with human subjects. Unfortunately, commercial VR controllers have large positioning errors in a micro-manipulation task. Here, we propose a VR-based framework along with a sensor fusion algorithm to improve the microposition tracking performance of a microsurgical tool. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first appl ...[more]
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