Title
A novel 4-DOFs origami enabled, SMA actuated, robotic end-effector for minimally invasive surgery
Abstract
Minimally invasive Surgery (MIS) is one of the most challenging fields for robot designers due to the limited size of the access points, to the high miniaturization level and to the dexterity needed for performing surgical tasks. For this reason, the integration of actuators should proceed in parallel with the identification of the most effective transmission mechanisms and kinematics. Conversely, only a few microfabrication technologies are adequate for developing small size mechanisms with safe operation in the human body. In this paper a SMA actuated, miniaturized, origami-enabled, parallel structure is presented as a versatile module for novel robotic tool in MIS, the parallel structure has been combined with a twisting module and a gripper obtaining a 4-DOFs on board actuated end-effector.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907267
Robotics and Automation
Keywords
Field
DocType
actuators,end effectors,grippers,manipulator kinematics,medical robotics,surgery,4-DOF origami,SMA,actuators,gripper,kinematics,miniaturization level,minimally invasive surgery,origami-enabled structure,parallel structure,robotic end-effector,transmission mechanism,twisting module
SMA*,Control engineering,Robot end effector,Engineering
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2014
1
1050-4729
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.44
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco Salerno1425.56
Zhang, K.2123.13
Arianna Menciassi3768138.57
Jian S. Dai417830.53