The present activity aims to complete a preliminary analysis that defines requirements, specifications and use case for a remote ultrasound diagnosis system. This preliminary analysis was conducted by searching extensively in publications relating to an extended period of time and by searching among the systems currently on the market in the field of telecography. The analysis culminated in the definition of an appropriate teleoperation architecture capable of performing the assigned task. In particular, the identified technical requirements allowed us to size and select the different parts of the architecture: a master haptic interface with force feedback and dummy probe on the doctor’s side and a manipulator arm equipped with an ultrasound probe on the patient’s side.
This activity includes also the investigation of shared autonomy and shared control algorithms to improve both the efficiency user interaction in telemanipulation.