Title
Design, simulation and evaluation of kinematic alternatives for Insertable Robotic Effectors Platforms in Single Port Access Surgery
Abstract
This paper presents the task specifications for designing a novel Insertable Robotic Effectors Platform (IREP) with integrated stereo vision and surgical intervention tools for Single Port Access Surgery (SPAS). This design provides a compact deployable mechanical architecture that may be inserted through a single Ø15 mm access port. Dexterous surgical intervention and stereo vision are achieved via the use of two snake-like continuum robots and two controllable CCD cameras. Simulations and dexterity evaluation of our proposed design are compared to several design alternatives with different kinematic arrangements. Results of these simulations show that dexterity is improved by using an independent revolute joint at the tip of a continuum robot instead of achieving distal rotation by transmission of rotation about the backbone of the continuum robot. Further, it is shown that designs with two robotic continuum robots as surgical arms have diminished dexterity if the bases of these arms are close to each other. This result justifies our design and points to ways of improving the performance of existing designs that use continuum robots as surgical arms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509244
ICRA
Keywords
DocType
Volume
medical robotics,snake-like continuum robots,dexterity evaluation,surgical arms,compact deployable mechanical architecture,surgical intervention tools,robotic continuum robots,integrated stereo vision,insertable robotic effectors platform,dexterous surgical intervention,kinematic alternatives,manipulator kinematics,controllable ccd cameras,stereo image processing,single port access surgery,surgery,robot vision,arm,spine,ccd camera,stereo vision,robotics,kinematics,robot kinematics,robot control
Conference
2010
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
1
1050-4729 E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-5040-4
978-1-4244-5040-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
34
2.99
8
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jienan Ding19010.07
Kai Xu227141.94
Roger E. Goldman320017.69
Peter K. Allen43089268.12
Dennis L. Fowler510710.84
Nabil Simaan658962.84