Title
The RAVEN: Design and Validation of a Telesurgery System
Abstract
The collaborative effort between fundamental science, engineering and medicine provides physicians with improved tools and techniques for delivering effective health care. Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) techniques have revolutionized the way a number of surgical procedures are performed. Recent advances in surgical robotics are once again revolutionizing MIS interventions and open surgery. In an earlier research endeavor, 30 surgeons performed 7 different MIS tasks using the Blue Dragon system to collect measurements of position, force, and torque on a porcine model. This data served as the foundation for a kinematic optimization of a spherical surgical robotic manipulator. Following the optimization, a seven-degree-of-freedom cable-actuated surgical manipulator was designed and integrated, providing all degrees of freedom present in manual MIS as well as wrist joints located at the surgical end-effector. The RAVEN surgical robot system has the ability to teleoperate utilizing a single bi-directional UDP socket via a remote master device. Preliminary telesurgery experiments were conducted using the RAVEN. The experiments illustrated the systemâ聙聶s ability to operate in extreme conditions using a variety of network settings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1177/0278364909101795
I. J. Robotic Res.
Keywords
Field
DocType
surgical robot,telesurgery,mobile robotic telesurgery,kinematic optimization,minimally invasive surgery,teleoperation,FLS,task performance,human machine interface,time delay,surgical stills
Teleoperation,Robotic systems,Kinematics,Surgical robotics,Surgical manipulator,Simulation,Wrist joints,Human–machine interface,Engineering,Robot manipulator
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28
9
0278-3649
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
53
4.39
12
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mitchell J. H. Lum114214.16
Diana C. W. Friedman2888.61
Ganesh Sankaranarayanan317524.85
H Hawkeye King419317.58
Kenneth Fodero5534.39
Rainer Leuschke6687.53
Blake Hannaford72527516.26
J Rosen840543.54
M N Sinanan923927.55