HAPTIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN SURGICAL SIMULATION, MEDICAL TRAINING AND MILITARY APPLICATION?

Engineering as it finds its wide range of application in every field not an exception even the medical and military field. One of the technologies which aid the surgeons to perform even the most complicated surgeries successfully is Virtual Reality. And In this paper I have a look at different military fields and applications. I present example applications, which are being used in those fields. The applications are discussed and conclusions are made. Haptics, despite of being a relatively new topic in military field, has a small but certain ground already and will be more important in the future. Even though virtual reality is employed to carry out operations the surgeon’s attention is one of the most important parameter. If he commits any mistakes it may lead to a dangerous end. So, one may think of a technology that reduces the burdens of a surgeon by providing an efficient interaction to the surgeon than VR. Now our dream came to reality by means of a technology called “HAPTIC TECHNOLOGY”.