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This paper proposes a novel method which detects a rupture of organs based on environmental impedance estimation. The proposed method detects the rupture of the organs which is conducive to serious medical accident. The environmental impedance is estimated from position and force responses of a surgery robot by using recursive least-squares algorithm. The rupture behavior is analyzed, and thresholds...
The modeling of needle insertion into tissues is important for simulation of this procedure and for robotic technologies applied to percutaneous therapy. In this article, we present a first attempt to develop a general force model for the needle insertion throw different tissue layers (skin, fat and muscle) to reach an internal organ (the liver, for instance) with objectives of control, looking for...
Recently, doctor and medical care persons are shortage by the aging of population. Thus, robot support systems are needed for medical care. The motion of the human support system is controlled by routine. Position control and velocity control is usual method. These controls are not considered the human motion. This paper proposes method of human support system using motion coping system. The motion...
This paper describes a novel approach to interactive power assisting control cooperating with visual information for robotic wheelchair. In the proposed approach, both encoder-based and vision-based reaction force observer are designed for obtaining the virtual force due to the environmental change in the field of view. The vision-based observer using the optical flow field of visual scene can estimate...
This paper discusses about a haptic communication system. Recently the haptic information is attracted attention as the third sense of communication information. And the real world haptics is the key technology for the haptic communication. However, the present approach of the teleoperation system postulates that human touches the remote object via the device like as the remote surgery. Considering...
This paper describes the control scheme for wheelchair pushing operation considering high tracking performance and ride quality using mobile manipulator. The mobile manipulator has both mobility of the mobile platform and manipulability of the multijoint arms, so it can perform many works. Therefore, it is very effective for work in human environments. This research aims at pushing wheelchairs using...
Recently, Minimally Invasive Surgery(MIS) has come to the front. The research on surgical robot for operational support has been actively done. To use such robots in MIS, it is needed to estimate the environmental impedance as the numerical data and to preserve it as the standard reference value of the safety field of internal organs. In this paper, the environmental model considering nonlinear stiffness...
Recently, robotic surgical support systems are in clinical use for minimally invasive surgery. In order to improve the operability of the robotic surgical systems, development of haptic forceps teleoperation systems is required to help surgeon's dexterity. In addition, the motion scaling, which can adequately reduce or enlarge the movements and tactile senses of the operator and the robot, is necessary...
The field of medical nanorobotics exploits nanometer-scale components and phenomena to enable new or at least to enhance existing medical diagnostic and interventional procedures. The best route for such miniature robots to access the various regions inside the human body is certainly the vascular network which is constituted of nearly 100,000 km of blood vessels. The variations in blood vessels diameters...
This paper reports the design of a Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) gripper with four degrees of freedom force sensing capabilities. It will be used to provide force feedback during surgical interventions in which the surgeon will remotely manipulate surgical instruments through the use of a robotic arm directly inserted into the patient's insufflated abdominal cavity. Suturing, dissection and ablation...
Many kinds of exoskeleton robots have been developed to assist the motion in rehabilitation and daily living of physically weak persons. The concept of perception-assist has been proposed to assist not only the daily motion but also the interaction with an environment, by applying the modification force to the user's motion. In this paper, task-oriented perception-assist is proposed to assist the...
The authors are developing a knee joint robot as an educational tool for students becoming physical therapist (PT) or occupational therapist (OT). The robot can simulate some problems of a knee joint, such as range of motion trouble, contracture, rigidity, spasticity and so on. The robot has a knee joint mechanism to realize not only flexion/extension movement but also inner/outer rotation movement,...
Wearable robots can assist people with disabilities to perform their daily tasks. However, the size, weight and wearability are important factors in the design because it is worn by the person controlling it. Various disabilities can be assisted with wearable robot technology, from the lower to upper body. The hand is an important part of the body for the disabled to perform their daily tasks. However,...
In this study, we aim at developing a mechanical device to support human rehabilitation motion of their wrist joint instead of a physiotherapist. Pneumatic parallel manipulator is introduced as a mechanical equipment from a view that pneumatic actuators bring minute force control property owing to the air compressibility and parallel manipulator's feature of multiple degrees of freedom is suitable...
This paper aims to investigate how robotic devices can be used to understand the mechanism of sensorimotor adaptation in pediatric subjects affected by hemiparetic cerebral palsy. Previous studies showed how healthy adults, after training in presence of a systematic structured disturbing force field, show an “after effect” and therefore they highly adapt and compensate the external disturbance. An...
The chemotherapy magnetically controlled under Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is currently one of the active areas of cancer research. This paper proposes a precise model of a therapeutic microrobot magnetically steered in blood vessels. This modeling approach takes into account the non-Newtonian behavior of blood, as well as wall effect on the blood's profile and robot-to-wall interaction forces...
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries have become more common in recent years as more young people participate in risky sporting activities. Most ACL injuries occur as a result of noncontact mechanisms. Previous in vitro studies of ACL strain have found significant increases in ACL strain primarily with anterior directed force on the tibia relative to the femur and with internal rotation and often...
This paper presents the design of a direct driven under-actuated portable hand exoskeleton for rehabilitation. The design of the proposed Hand EXOskeleton SYStem (HEXOSYS) was driven by multi-objective optimisation strategy and inspiration from the human hand. The optimisation algorithm resulted in the choice of optimum link lengths of the device. The optimisation criteria are based on dexterity,...
Several systems have been proposed to objectively quantify the motor signs of Parkinson's disease. While validity has been investigated for a subset of these systems, test-retest reliability of automated assessments has been more neglected. We have created a protocol that uses a robotic system to measure force and position as the user performs tracking tasks with and without a simultaneous cognitive...
The purpose of this report is to propose portable and attachable tele-echography robot system: FASTele. Focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) is important for patients who have shock by internal bleeding. However, the patient has little time, and transportation to a hospital may take too long. A system which enables FAST more quickly is required. Therefore, we aim to develop a tele-echography...
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