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This video elaborates on a new active and controllable over-tube addition to the highly articulated robotic probe; the HARP. This over-tube allows the current HARP mechanism to double its overall length and allows it to perform more complex tasks. We explain the design concept of the current HARP and the novel over-tube mechanism and show two proof-of-concept experiments demonstrating the use of the...
The use of end-to-end communication systems as a medium of delivery for electronic healthcare (eHealth) services is considered to be uncertain, with respect to its reliability leading to hesitation in acceptance of such services. There exist different influential dimensions that pose stringent requirements on end-to-end communication systems, influence user perception and might hinder user acceptance...
This paper present a new laparoscopic surgical setup (minimally invasive surgery, MIS) with spherical serial surgical robot. The robot was developed at the PPRIME Institute in the ROBIOSS team from Poitiers University. Based on laparo-scopic surgery, specification for workspace and constraints are outlined and the architecture selected for the surgical robots is presented and discussed. Analytical...
NOTES (Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery), a recently developed form of minimally invasive surgery, has attracted attention as a new laparoscopic operation. However, manipulation of forceps throughout the surgery continues to be a burden to surgeons. Our previous research focused on designing a model that could carry forceps and a camera through the abdominal cavity. The robot moves...
Due to the lack of surgical planning, the needle-insertion path planning still depends on the surgeon's operation experience and the reconstructed 3D operation environment in the robot-assisted liver tumor coagulation therapy system. So, the study of the surgical planning strategy is an important task to reduce the surgeon workload and improve the therapy efficiency and quality. To this end, according...
In this paper, a novel robotic catheter system was proposed, which can be used to assist surgeon to do the operation of vascular interventional surgery (VIS), the robotic catheter system can measure the contact force and friction between catheter and blood vessel, we used load cell to measure the friction between catheter and blood vessel, the friction can be transmitted to the operator's hand as...
The introduction of robotic master-slave systems for minimally invasive surgery has created new opportunities in assisting surgeons with partial or fully autonomous functions. While autonomy is an ongoing field of research, the question of how the growing number of offered features can be triggered in a time-saving manner at the master console is not well investigated. We have implemented a gesture-based...
A gesture driven robotic scrub nurse (GRSN) for the operating room (OR) is presented. The GRSN passes surgical instruments to the surgeon during surgery which reduces the workload of a human scrub nurse. This system offers several advantages such as freeing human nurses to perform concurrent tasks, and reducing errors in the OR due to miscommunication or absence of surgical staff. Hand gestures are...
We present a novel method for enforcing nonlinear inequality constraints in the estimation of a high degree of freedom robotic system within a Kalman filter. Our constrained Kalman filtering technique is based on a new concept, which we call uncertainty projection, that projects the portion of the uncertainty ellipsoid that does not satisfy the constraint onto the constraint surface. A new PDF is...
Robotic surgery is increasingly popular for a wide range of complex minimally invasive surgery procedures. To improve robotic surgery training, a skills trainer simulator called dV-Trainer has recently been introduced, and a da Vinci Skills Simulator is in advanced evaluation. These platforms report a range of time and motion based task metrics and literature has investigated the validity of these...
We describe transnasal skull base surgery, including the current clinical procedure and the ways in which a robotic system has the potential to enhance the current standard of care. The available workspace is characterized by segmenting medical images and reconstructing the available 3D geometry. We then describe thin, “tentacle-like” robotic tools with shafts constructed from concentric tube robots,...
Shape and mechanical structure of instruments play a large part in the lack of ergonomics during laparoscopic surgery. Providing intra-abdominal mobility and rethinking handles design are two solutions to increase comfort and precision of gestures. Based on previous work that determined the optimal intra-abdominal kinematics, this study analyses the influence of handle design on both gesture and ergonomic...
The main objective of this paper is to minimize the occluded areas in order to recognize the navigation of the surgeon's tools for a two-arm autonomous robotic system for laparoscopic procedures. This robotic assistant needs the tracking of the surgeon's surgical gestures in order to recognize the current maneuver and to execute the automated tasks of the robot. The surgical tools pose estimation...
This work introduces a new endoscope robot system for general sinus surgery. The proposed endoscope can be bent in accordance with a user's intension at the time of inserting the endoscope into the sinus area, and it was designed to be bent up to 180 degrees and its diameter is about 4mm. The design of the proposed endoscope uses a spring backbone, which allows flexibility of the mechanism. A design...
In the CABG surgery the robot dynamically cancels the relative motion between the point of interest (POI) on the beating heart and robotic instruments, such that the surgeon can operate as if the heart is stationary. Due to high bandwidth of the POI motion, the quick and precise tracking ability of the robot system is necessary. Different from other heart motion tracking system with only position...
This paper presents the control architecture and the first performance evaluation results of a novel and highly-dexterous 18 degrees of freedom (DOF) miniature master/slave teleoperated robotic system called SPRINT (Single-Port la-paRoscopy bimaNual roboT). The system was evaluated in terms of positioning accuracy, repeatability, tracking error during local teleoperation and end-effector payload....
In this paper, we discuss the design of an adaptive control system for robot-assisted surgery with haptic feedback. Through a haptic device, the surgeon teleoperates the medical instrument in free space, fixed on a remote robot or in contact. In free space, the surgeon feels the motion of the robot. In the present paper, we evaluated the performance of the controller on viscoelastic tissue, modeled...
During needle insertion in soft tissue, detection of change in tissue properties is important both for diagnosis to detect pathological tissue and for prevention to avoid puncture of important structures. The presence of a membrane located deep inside the tissue results in a relatively small force variation at the needle tip that can be masked by relatively large friction force between the needle...
Current cardiac surgery faces the challenging problem of heart beating motion even with the help of mechanical stabilizer which makes delicate operation on the heart surface difficult. Motion compensation methods for robotic-assisted beating heart surgery have been proposed recently in literature, but research on force control for such kind of surgery has hardly been reported. Moreover, the viscoelasticity...
We propose a new snake-like robot for use in single-port minimally invasive surgery. The snake robot is made of a concentric tube robot and a highly articulated robotic probe. The probe operates as a stiff shield for the concentric tube robot. Consequently, the snake robot provides simultaneously high tip stiffness and dexterity that cannot be obtained by the single use of any of two robots. A critical...
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