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Several passive joints are usually needed in surgical robots to decrease the difficulty in doctors' operating, which can be manually rotated without motor pushing. When stopped at a specified position, passive joints should be locked until operation ends, and keep bearing torques. This paper is aimed to design a locking method used in minimally invasive surgical robot. Firstly choose the locking type...
In neurosurgery, effects of deformation should be considered to avoid damaging brain tissues. The goal of this study is to develop an automatic path planner considering the deformation of brain tissues. This paper shows a scheme which combines FEM (Finite Element Method) and an optimization method for optimization of retraction in order to approach a deep part of a brain. Also, evaluations of two...
Dissection and removal of lesion area are fundamental operations in brain surgery. In order to correctly reproduce dissection and removal in brain surgery haptic simulation, mechanical properties of brain tissue must be investigated. In this work, porcine brains are used as specimens. Mechanical properties such as density, Poisson's ratio, Young's modulus, damping coefficient, and fracture stress...
In order to interact with human flexibly, the robots need lightweight structure to adjust their configuration conveniently and further save operation energy. It is a challenge in design when the robots are proceeding tasks with a huge and heavy body. This paper presents an improved framework of the humanoid robot optimized by the evolutionary structural optimization (ESO) method for lightweight design...
This paper proposes the design and development of an integrated serial elastic actuator (SEA) which is used as the elbow joint in the soft humanoid arm. First, requirements of SEA are illustrated. And six different types of elastic elements (e.g. the discoid element, the cylindrical) are analyzed using the design of experiment (DOE) method. And then, a discoid elastic element with larger flexibility...
The design and evaluation of a new compliant microgripper is reported in this paper on the basis of a dissymmetric mechanism. This structure has two parallelogram mechanisms which enable the generation of purely translational motion of the gripper tips. It is desirable for micromanipulation and microassembly tasks. Unlike the traditional pure-translation grippers, the presented one has a simple architecture...
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