4 accepted papers
A new autonomous camera-holder robotic system for Laparoscopic Surgery (LS) is presented in this paper. In the proposed system, a 7-DoF collaborative robot holds and moves the laparoscope, or surgical camera, so that it permanently points towards the instruments' tips. A motion capture (MoCap) syste
For bilateral teleoperation, the haptic feedback demands the availability of accurate force information transmitted from the remote site. Nevertheless, due to the limitation of the size, the force sensor is usually attached outside of the patient's abdominal cavity for the surgical operation. Hence,
In this paper, a teleoperation control of a 7-DoF robot manipulator for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), which guarantees a safety-enhanced compliant behavior in the null space, is described. The redundancy of the manipulator is exploited to provide a flexible workspace for nurses or other staff (a…
In this paper, we provide a new generalized kinematic formulation of the Remote Center of Motion (RCM) constraint for serial robotic arms to be useful for implementation in torque-controlled robots. A minimally invasive surgery assisted by a serial robot could be used for inserting a surgical tool t…