Needs Statement

Since the surgeon's hands are fully occupied with surgical tools and must remain sterile, commercial surgical microscopes employ sophisticated foot-operated controllers to allow the surgeon to control the microscope head’s location/translation, zoom and focus settings. Similarly, we need to develop a custom input device to enable surgeons to control the OCT system.

Initially, we will use commercially available components such as buttons, joysticks, and pedals in a layout like the microscope’s native foot controller, both to reduce the learning curve needed for surgeons and with an eye toward eventual integration of the two different controllers.

Design

I work at Professor Izatt's Lab for MIOCT Project. I am doing the hardware design for foot penal control. Here is my design process and deliveries. All functions were assigned based on the function map.

Prototype

First version of Prototype is made of wood board, We studied the layout of the Leica pedal and decided not change too much on the layout, considering sugens are used to that. We quickly made the first prototype for function validation and get feedback from our software compatibility. We also gain first round feedback from the clinicians.